Ticket Giveaway: With Zimbabwe’s 89-year-old dictator Robert Mugabe last week extending his 33-year rule for five more years, there is no better time to see the “riveting” (Times of London) play “Breakfast With Mugabe,” Fraser Grace’s award-winning thriller, originally produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The play is inspired by newspaper accounts that Mugabe, severely depressed, and convinced he was haunted by the ghost of a slain rival, sought treatment from a white psychiatrist.
“The subjects of Zimbabwe and Mugabe are rich with dramatic potential and this script does service to both.”-Oskar Eustis, artistic director of the Public Theater
“Imagine a modern-day Macbeth, haunted by the ghost of Banquo, attempting to sort out his blood-stained fears with the help of a therapist. The resulting drama might be something like “Breakfast With Mugabe,” a compact, troubling thriller”-New York Times review of a 2010 production at the Centenary Stage Company in New Jersey with the same cast.
“Breakfast With Mugabe” will be presented at The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theater at The Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street) through October 6 (in repertory with a play called “Final Analysis.)
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TCHNo1 My favorite political play is Ann. This is because it is about a woman who was married with children and entered politics and won enough votes with her political views and personality to become Governor of Texas. I think the Clintons – Hillary and Bill would make a good play. So much material between Monica Lewinsky and the bills he passed and then Hillary coming into her own in poliitics . It would be very interesting.
A stage show about Sarah palin would be hilarious! It could be a comedy and they could make songs out of some of her famous sayings! @kyledmorales
I think there should be a musical (with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim) about Russian president Vladmir Putin. Because he’s a modern-day Stalin, I see the musical being a cross between “Evita” and “Sweeney Todd” except instead of a barber’s razor as the murder weapon of choice, poison, supposedly Putin’s favorite, would be used instead. David Hyde Pierce attempting a Russian accent would play Putin and Patti LuPone as his neglected, long-suffering wife. I see a rave review by Ben Brantley and a slew of Tony nods. What do you think? @irisdorbian
I think a play about Thomas Jefferson would be interesting because of his role in our countries history as well as the insight into his personal life. I think it would be interesting to juxtapose the two of them,
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I’d love to see a musical about Bill Clinton! There should be a duet by Hillary and Monica. I think that would be hilarious! A love triangle inside the “belt”way! lol
Churchill has to be the most fascinating political figure of the 20th century, arguably a key one for standing up to Hitler virtually alone at the start. A play that finds him in his “war room” dealing with the blitzkrieg and trying desperately to get the US to enter the war and waitng for Roosevelt would be riveting.