On a rough night, Queen Elizabeth I hangs with actors who have teeth
When faced with a dark night of the soul, the powerful often seek the sustenance of subordinates. Such juicy, on-the-cusp moments — real or merely possible — are hard for playwrights to resist. Thus just as "Nixon's Nixon" memorably imagined the disgraced president on the eve of his resignation yakking with Henry Kissinger, and just as some future savvy dramatist may come up with a play about the Blagojev…