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Power plays.(Brief Article)
Byline: Adam Green
The phrase political theater generally calls to mind what the critic John Coleman dubbed "the state of alienation known as Brechtian, but what we used to call bored stiff." On the New York stage this month, two crackling new productions show that, in fact, politics is less about bloviating and big ideas than about personalities, passions, and the inscrutability of the human heart-in short, the stuff of drama. From London's Royal National Theatre comes Democracy, Copenhagen playwright Michael Frayn's ...
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