Triumph by Caryl Churchill at the Public
In Caryll Churchill’s new 20-minute play, Annaleigh Ashford portrays Iris the press secretary to the emperor, boasting during a press conference of his having turned this city “from brick to glorious marble.” This would make us think of Trump even if the play’s poster did not egg us on to conjure him (not-at-all-subliminally.) But what’s brilliant...