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Article: What's a little war among friends?
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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In the right hands, theater can function as a kind of thermometer
that calibrates to a precise degree the emotional temperature of the
times.
To measure the intensity of public anger at President Lyndon B.
Johnson over the Vietnam War, consider "MacBird!" a scorching satire
that premiered in 1967 and ran for nearly a year in New York.
Written by antiwar activist Barbara Garson, "MacBird!" accused LBJ
of orchestrating the murder of President Kennedy so he could,
Macbeth-style, take JFK's place.
To measure the intensity of public anger at President George W.
Bush over the Iraq war, historians may find themselves consulting
such plays as Craig Wright's flawed but engrossing "Lady," which ...