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Company: SPNP Tech, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Genre:Storytelling

Venue:5 Son of Warehouse

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For a mere $10, Eric Jaffe can give you a higher education. It is most likely to be well spent by anyone who has spent in excess of $500 on a university class that, in retrospect, would seem to have beenbetter used plugging slot machinesor buying Pokmon cards.

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C- is centeredaround a series of interviews with members of the protagonist'sformer fraternity brothers, now middle-aged. The exerciseyields much that is self defining, some that is sad andpoignant, and frequently that which is simply hilarious.

The exerciseyields much that is self defining, some that is sad andpoignant, and frequently that which is simply hilarious.- John Sadoway

This show understands the difference between the pursuit of self versus the pursuit of wealth.

Jaffe'scharacterizations are strong and his fundamental premise is satisfying: that life is about the people who help you enrich it, not about those who pursue enrichment based on a coronation in an ivory tower.