a new play by Richard Nelson (*Some Americans Abroad*; *Two Shakespearean Actors*; *New England*; several adaptations of Chekhov, Pirandello and others; now head of playwriting at Yale Drama School), set in 45 B.C., but in modern dress, now through March 30 at NY's Public Theatre, with a cast that includes Brian Dennehy, Aidan Quinn, Gloria Reuben, David Strathairn and Maria Tucci.
Listen to Strathairn's speech at
www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/theater/16blank.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin
Couldn't the Syrians stand in for Islamofascists, and Caesar for Bush, so that the whole speech _endorses_ Bush's "war against terrorism"? But then I don't know the play or its full context. My hunch is that I've misinterpreted -- but can others clarify?
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