OffBook: Politics

With the current political season bearing down on us, and the world’s revolutionary actions and democratic frustrations threatening us, it’s no surprise that politics find their way into theatre. Art often mimics life, and in political times like these, specifically with the world in so much turmoil, it’s a good thing for art to push us to discuss subjects we’re sometimes too polite to begin, or on which we’re too severely divided to hear one another. Theatre offers a neutral space for the tough subjects to be scrutinized. If only we could find such a place more often, which brings me to my “once-every-four-years” pet peeves...

Oh politics…how do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways

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