I saw the reading at NYTW and couldn't, for the life of me, see what the big deal about this play was, other than just the mere fact that Bush, Blair, Powell, Rice et al were characters in a play. It's just standard, straight forward journalistic reportage without any real point of view or style or cleverness or insight (it's really not even anti-Republican; it's just the facts and didn't seem terribly slanted to me -- obviously Bush & company don't come off too well at times, but that's just the reality). Much of it is just an assemblage of verbatim quotes from the public record from all of these key figures -- many of which I had heard before; a few "behind closed door meetings" are inventions by Hare and aren't any more interesting. For anyone who's read the papers and/or paid attention to the news in the last few years, it was completely unilluminating. I remember that several of the major New York critics were there (Winer, Kissell, Lahr, Brantley et al) and at the end of the three hours I looked at them and they all seemed to have the same reaction I did -- there was a collective shrug of the shoulders which seemed to say "Huh?"
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
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