“A Tale of Autumn” Tells of Worlds Disrupted, at Crowded Fire, S.F.
Chen’s Dystopian Dramedy Rings Alarm by Paul Ebenkamp Christopher Chen’s “A Tale of Autumn” is a will-to-power story that takes corporate-state nihilism, bourgeois obliviousness, and the poverties and traumas suffered by those who stand in the way of ascendant tyranny, and shakes them gently. The result is a tightly constructed dystopian dramedy of manners….