“POTUS”, the new feminist Broadway comedy that thrives on the Donald Trump era

You don’t see his face, but because of his outbursts and the sex scandals surrounding him, everyone seems to know the fictional president giving his title to The new feminist comedy of Broadway, POTUS (President Of The United States, the acronym referring to president). Yes, we are talking about Donald Trump.

In a long and descriptive subtitle, translated as “Behind every big asshole there are seven women trying to keep him alive”, the rude play, set in a White House supported only by women on an insane dayhardly leaving any doubt about his hidden determination during the Trump era.

At a media briefing on Wednesday, May 4, viewers burst into laughter from the first scene between a chief of staff (Julie White) and a press officer (Suzy Nakamura) who was hysterical because the president called the “cunt” (vulgar expression. meaning pussy or whore) to his wife in public.

First lady with a strong personality

But the first lady (Vanessa Williams) turns out to be a powerful woman, like the journalist (Lili Cooper) hiding in a closet, listening, when the pregnant housewife (Julianne Hough) and the former convict and lesbian sister. (Lea Dearia) of the president, releasing a happy excitement.

The seventh in contention, with a happy role, is an incompetent secretary (Rachel Dratch) whostart hallucinating and running around -even through the corridors between the public- after accidentally taking some drugs, and that causes problems for everyone as they try to deal with the labeled number POTUS.

The work came at a very opportune moment, given the political crossroads facing the country, and it was reflected by viewers in New York, a Democratic bastion and a progressive pillar in the US, who responded with cheers. and applaud the the young lover’s defense of the right to abortionwhich can be reversed in reality.

There is also a nod to The Handmaid’s Tale (The Maid’s Story), the novel of Margaret Atwood became a Hulu series and had great success with new generations of feminists, who envisioned a dystopian United States dominated by fanatics where fertile women were sexually enslaved.

sorority before power

Attentive eyes noticed the motto of that other fiction’s resistance, “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum” (don’t let the bastards overwhelm you, in a Latin invention) in the backdrop of an event where the president must attend and where. all these women who are unique in their environment end up forming a sorority.

At the culmination of that moment, seasoned with large doses of humor and colloquial speech, the main characters began to sing and dance, to the applause of the audience, who remained standing in a final medley of songs with lyrics such as “We are all born equal”.

POTUS has caused the sensation of critics not only because of its all-female cast, but also because of the majority of its team, including its new playwright, Selina Fillinger, who is making her Broadway debut with this play, and its director, Susan Stroman, multiple Tony Award winner.

Source: EFE

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