Could A Play Stop A Demagogue? Theatre and Electoral Politics

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Could A Play Stop A Demagogue? Theatre and Electoral Politics by [email protected] (jamie)

By Jonathan Mandell. Have jokey depictions of elections on stage and screen helped cause a joke of a real-life presidential campaign? Jonathan Mandell visits two experimental theatre projects that are tackling this year's presidential election in serious and intriguing ways.

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