Of Government

*illustration by Sophie Lee

By Alexander Borinsky

Directed by Brooke O’Harra

Original music by Joe White

Starring: Whitney Barrett, Ciara Brown, Tia Denby, Annie Fang, Gabriela Juarez Salcedo, Sophie Lee, Nancy Rosenberg, Susset Tamayo, and Brea Watkins

Praise for the play: 

"You know you're in for something extraordinary when even the turn-off-your-phone announcement is wonderful. Before Alex Borinsky's school-pageant-styled Of Government begins, we're plied with cookies and pie—each, we are assured, P.T.A.-made... If ever a political play were huggable, this would be it... Borinsky can write like blazes—and he likes to prove it—so amidst the forest of naturalistic dialogue, huge gouts of monologue suddenly rear up. Tawny goes loquaciously mad in one scary scene, which seems necessary to the plot, but how to explain Beth Dixon's aria about a small town losing its grocery store? Who cares! It's a comic masterpiece, and all I can say is it seemed necessary at the time. But all this hilarity does not disguise the fury at the show's core." Helen Shaw, Time Out