Daughters of the Revolution
Last night, I say a very interesting play. It was very political and I’m sure most of the jokes went right over my head. It was paired with another play, called “Mothers Against”. Together, “Mothers Against” and “Daughters of the Revolution” gave both sides of the same gubernatorial election. “Daughters of the Revolution” gave the left side of the race. The thing was that this one was not actually about the gubernatorial candidate, but instead a man that was connected with the campaign manager.
The show starts out when the main character, Michael, comes home to find his friends dressed up in circa 60s peace movement attire reading a script written directly off his FBI file. This continues on for a few minutes, naming all the protests he attended in college as well as all the underground revolutionary movements he was in. It doesn’t stop there, it turned out there was a plot Michael was affiliated with in 1972 to kidnap a prominent Republican politician’s daughter and demand the release of an african american militant. There was only one meeting to plan for this attack and there were only eight people attending the movement. One of the attendees was the democratic candidate’s campaign manager. If the snitch reveals this terrifying plot during the campaign, the election is lost and the right will definitely pass “Proposition 92″, requiring all voters to pledge allegiance to democracy. This play is as action packed as a political play of this sort of topic can get. Every new scene brought a new twist to the plot and the end was as shocking as the plot itself.
I would definitely recommend this play to anybody who is into politics. Most of the history relates to the time between MacCarthy and the Vietnam War, but it was not totally in depth. My little brother could grasp the concept and he is in 6th grade so it must not be that bad.