You know it's science fiction because Zack Orth is in it.
Laurie "Hillary Clinton" Metcalf looks bored. Not good publicity for the play.
Posted on 05/08/2019 11:39:06 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Women and slaves, Aristotle believed, cannot be tragic heroes. Two millennia on, a tragic heroine is on Broadway, fashioned out of the living flesh and blood legend that is Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Hillary and Clinton bills itself as kind of a comedy. But given the way things turned out on the world stage, a middle-aged, flawed heroine in fleece and slippers shaking a metaphorical fist at fate, is pure tragedy.
Playwright Lucas Hnath's character is facing a very modern challenge. She is a woman trapped in a death spiral with her own meme and her spouse.
Hillary’s political career was surely defined by overt and casual misogyny but Hnath and Metcalf have created a female character with agency and flaws.
Hnath and Metcalf insist that it’s all art, but Hillary and Clinton gets a lot right about the real Hillary’s tragic flaw of a reach that surpassed her grasp.
The play opens with fictional Hillary musing about a parallel universe, one in which she can win.
Let’s imagine another dimension in which Hillary realizes her natural talents suit her for the procedural Byzantium of the U.S. Senate, to which the voters of New York sent her for a second term in 2006—after she promised she would not quit to run for president.
Imagine that she let someone else take the Democratic nomination. Imagine that a Democrat won in 2016. Imagine that said President appointed Hillary to one of the Supreme Court openings, from where she could exercise brain and heart without ever having to participate in the political circus again.
Instead, in this universe, six nights a week on Broadway, a fictional Hillary shakes her fist at the fates that made her want and not have.
As Real Hillary must do most nights a half hour’s drive north, in Chappaqua.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
You know it's science fiction because Zack Orth is in it.
Laurie "Hillary Clinton" Metcalf looks bored. Not good publicity for the play.
Well played sir!
Anyone within ashtray flinging distance?
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