The anti-Trump choir will shiver and rage at the sermon, while any MAGA sympathizers - if they somehow stumble into this performance - will find it offensive and ridiculous.Īnd let both sides pray that “Building the Wall” doesn’t turn out to be prophecy. The bottom-line result is a cautionary tale that cautions no one. Grisby’s Gloria, on the other hand, merely serves as a stand-in for the audience, without any real character arc of her own. Herrington, who gave a powerful performance as a war criminal in iTheatre’s “9 Circles” a few years back, is a commanding presence onstage, and the playwright has taken pains to make the character believably complex and not just a cartoon. Suffice it to say that in today’s polarized polity, Trump supporters would call it liberal hysteria, and liberals … well, wouldn’t.īut while “Building the Wall” makes a forceful political statement, its toxic topicality makes for bad art. It’s not my job here to evaluate the plausibility of Schenkkan’s scenario. He wrote the excellent, Tony Award-winning LBJ bio-play “All the Way” and also co-wrote the films “Hacksaw Ridge” and “The Quiet American.” iTheatre Collaborative will produce and cultivate theatrical experiences that capture and galvanize our local community building a national reputation for imagination, innovation and inclusion. Now the nightmare - the worst-case scenario - comes to life in “Building the Wall,” a near-future thriller by Robert Schenkkan, no stranger to political dramas. Stray Cat Theatre founder Ron May performed Mike Daisey’s monologue “The Trump Card” a year ago – just days before the presidential election – and it was a trenchant, nay scorching, dissection of the MAGA phenomenon that probably gave liberals in its audience nightmares.
Not that I’m opposed to a good anti-Trump manifesto on principle. RELATED: Review: ‘The Nether’ and ‘Switzerland’ explore dark psychic territory That’s the none-too-subtle message of “Building the Wall,” the anti-Trump manifesto masquerading as a drama that ran off-Broadway earlier this year and is now onstage in Phoenix in a production by iTheatre Collaborative.
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