cover image by Annunziata Gianzero
“…The character
onstage may be
Hillary Rodham Clinton, but it is a Hillary
that America is only starting to imagine: President Hillary Rodham Clinton in
the Oval Office in the spring of 2009. And in Nick Salamone’s play HILLARY
AGONISTES she is wrestling with a crisis of biblical proportions: the sudden
disappearance of sixty-five million people worldwide (including her own
husband).
…it is also the latest provocative entry in the Hillary Canon, the continuing
mapping of Mrs Clinton across the cultural landscape….
In HILLARY AGONISTES…Mr Salamone treats his fantastical subject matter with
serious purpose, and he often gets Mrs Clinton eerily right….”
Patrick Healy, New York Times
“Nick Salamone is a
very talented man who has written what must surely be one of the best,
full-scale new plays in Edinburgh this year…
HILLARY AGONISTES is a well-constructed satire that deserves to have a life
after Edinburgh….”
Philip Fisher, The British Theatre Guide
originally produced by Playwrights' Arena
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