Oren Safdie, a 48-year-old playwright, premiered the play Unseamly in Montreal last month. He tells BuzzFeed, “All my plays touch on people I know in some ways.”
American Apparel has been a nonstop source of controversy since its founding almost two decades ago, selling clothes and sex and battling a series of sexual harassment suits brought against Chief Executive Officer Dov Charney.
Now, the retailer has inspired the stage, in the form of a play written by Charney's cousin Oren Safdie. Unseamly, which premiered in Montreal last month, presents the story of an attractive Hispanic 20-year-old who's seeking legal advice for a sexual harassment suit against her former boss, Ira Slatsky, the controversial CEO and founder of an international clothing company called "The Standard."
The Standard is described as a sweatshop-free apparel company, "famous for its sexualization of women" and provocative billboards, led by Slatsky, a hyper Jewish egomaniac in his early 40s, according to the script, a copy of which was obtained by BuzzFeed.
The play paints an unflattering picture of all the characters, but especially Slatsky, who, like Charney, is also dark-haired and dresses in the kind of white short-sleeved polo favored by the real-life CEO.
Early on in the play, Slatsky tells Malina: "Do we sometimes push the boundaries of decency, dangle a little titty, twat and cock in their faces, try things that are a little 'controversial'? Of course we do! It's a hand-to-hand combat out there — everyone clawing for attention, trying to grab people's eyes from their sockets — and if we're going to survive against the A&F's, the F-c-u-k's, it ain't gonna be because of our high fucking morals. The ends justify our means — and you get that!"
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