Salon.com: Oh, how long this first week of Clinton campaign coverage has been. It hasn’t even been a full seven days since Hillary’s announcement, and yet it feels as if a million years have passed since she popped up near the end of a YouTube video to reveal the big surprise that she’s running for president. It was a different time, long before the Chipotle burrito bowls and the van chasing and the tweets (so, so many tweets).
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I absolutely love satire, and this show is bound to be a hoot. I’m surprised it wasn’t thought of earlier or at least picked up by some big company. At any rate I would definitely like to see it done, if just to see the way they do cover politics in the play. The author of the article said it seemed to admire the administration which leads me to think that they painted a light in which the time in office didn’t go as badly as it actually did? I’m also wondering if the show covers the more touchy aspects of Clinton’s time in office, the scandals and the changes in public opinion. I’m also wondering if they have had any blow back or comments from Hilary Clinton’s campaign staff. I feel like they would be too happy with a satire show, positive or not, about them during their run. It’s too sensitive a time.
The playwright, Hodge, reveals his inspiration for writing, "Clinton the Musical," in that he believes there are truths to even the seemingly most outlandish, big personalities that we know. Specifically, Hodge speaks to the parallel persona of Bill Clinton, and how both Clinton himself and his confidants view Clinton as having almost two very distinct sides to him. Also, Hodge refers back to the notion that satires - which this play is - benefit greatly from very large, almost crazy characters (caricatures) of people. In all, Hodge discusses how he sees both Republicans and Democrats view his musical, and that there is something to be gleaned and found enjoyable, if you associate with either or neither party. Hodge seeks to poke fun at politics and these big personalities as a whole. His motives are not partisan. It is vital to the equality of society and democracy, for that matter, that we have the ability to speak openly, and, if one intends to, publicly criticize or poke fun of our political leaders... this promotes stability in society, keeping even the most powerful leaders in check.
Kevin Paul (54-102 :: A, Acting 1, Cameron Knight)
I always find satire theatre to be enlightening and powerful in the sense that it is able to take topics that the world typically holds such a serious and important light, and bring them down to a human level in a very humorous way. Politics always seem to be at the butt of most satire jokes, and the way in which it is utilized in this particular play is brilliant. Hodge seems to have taken a very creative approach to this particular play, in the fact that he has decided to create two versions of the same character, Bill Clinton. He stated that he had found in interviews that Clinton often spoke about feeling as though he were constantly living two parallel lives, and I think that his idea to take this is a very literal sense, in regards to his play, was a brilliant decision. This play is extremely relevant in the present day especially, now that Hillary is officially a presidential candidate.
Abby Jackaman
54-102 :: A, Acting 1, Cameron Knight
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