With a cast of seven (all award winners), and an intricate set (Beowulf Boritt), of well appointed rooms spinning on a turn table that reflects areas in the White House, we happily spend time with the females, including a pilot fish reporter. (L to R): Lilli Cooper, Rachel Dratch, Vanessa Williams in POTUS, directed by Susan Stroman, written by Selina Fillinger (Photo by ©Paul Kolnik) So does the gyrating plot which moves from mountain top to mountain top until you are so elevated, you can’t breathe for the belly laughs. The farce which sends up various former presidents we’ve had (to be fair Republican presidents, because Republicans are never fair), moves at the speed of light for pacing, quips, one-liners and thrust and parries that make absolute sense. That is the fleshy point! (L to R): Rachel Dratch and Julie White POTUS, directed by Susan Stroman, written by Selina Fillinger (Photo by ©Paul Kolnik) Without a penis, their vaginas bar them for as long as men decide. Another is they will never have any chance at all to be in the man’s world without doing what they do. Do they enable him? It’s one way to look at it. As the events whip by in Fillinger’s ebullient and raucous two act play, they reveal that without his women as his right and left arms, this particularly lame president, who could double for a former president whose last name begins with “T,” would be up sh*t’s creek without a paddle, plunging over a sewage waterfall to his sludgy demise. The theme gradually expands and is framed as a question by various female characters in this profoundly funny black comedy. Lilli Cooper, POTUS, directed by Susan Stroman, written by Selina Fillinger (Photo by ©Paul Kolnik) It makes one think, does it not? What are white men on that they are willing to spend BILLIONS to prevent women taking the highest office in the land? Has there been a time in US History when both political parties had women candidates running against each other for the presidency? POTUS suggests it’s about time. White men of both political parties pay billions of dollars to make sure that women aren’t presidents. In other words, “What Would Women Do,” if they ran the country? Well, it turns out in the play, they do! However, because they are not the president, they don’t receive credit for making the big man look good, while taking the flak from what he has managed to botch or not do at all. The theme? WWWD? (L to R): Vanessa Williams and Julie White POTUS, directed by Susan Stroman, written by Selina Fillinger (Photo by ©Paul Kolnik) Of course, there is a point to this brilliantly “mad” production, currently running at the Sam S. Writer Selina Fillinger turns every political meme on its silly and dangerous head as award winning director Susan Stroman shepherds her superb cast for maximum rollicking humor that doesn’t quit. POTUS: or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive is a laugh riot, pants wetter that begins from the moment the lights dim in the audience. (L to R): Julie White, Suzy Nakamura in POTUS, directed by Susan Stroman, written by Selina Fillinger (Photo by ©Paul Kolnik)
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