cover art by Paul Davis Studio
"Keith Reddin belongs to a
generation of American playwrights
newer than Mamet and Richard Nelson but no less adept at jabbing
a finger into his country's sores....
Reddin [is] a new talent to
watch."
Jeremy Kingston, The Times
(London)
"...The best new play of
the crop is RUM AND COKE, a wry, poignant look back at the can-do
optimism and patriotic naivete that led the U S to stumble into
the Bay of Pigs invasion. Playwright Keith Reddin, twenty-nine, was a
child of four when C I A-backed Cuban insurgents made their
disastrous landing in 1961, but he captures with compassion and
accuracy the Kennedy Administration's fundamental miscalculation:
the belief In a non-existent Cuban underground that was only
waiting for a signal of support to rise up and overthrow Fidel
Castro. Reddin presents the Bay of Pigs fiasco as a dress
rehearsal by America's best and brightest for their misjudgments
in Viet Nam. Some of the funniest scenes depict the white-collar
macho of bureaucrats who react to caution as a sign of deficient
manhood...."
William A Henry III, Time
originally produced at Yale Rep's Winterfest
9 M, 1 F
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