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Article: `PHILOSOPHER KING' NEEDS A CUT OR TWO.(Entertainment)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- May 6, 1997
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Philosophy and politics are heavyweight topics, and when the two enter the same arena, the battle may last until one is dead.
That's what happens in Juan Enrique Insua's ``The Philosopher King,'' which is playing at Theatre Babylon. Only in Insua's ring there are no winners. A philosophy professor and a politician battle over ethics and politics for nearly three hours until one is dead and the other is so wounded he wishes for death.
Insua works with his central character, The Philosopher (Jerry Lloyd) on several levels. There is his role as a professor, and it is in the halls of academia that he first encounters The Student (Joe Osheroff) who becomes ...