Hillary Agonistes

Part Greek tragedy, part blackest comedy, HILLARY AGONISTES presents the cautionary tale of Hillary Clinton, newly elected President of the United States. One bright spring day 65 million people disappear - First Husband Bill among them. Is it the rapture? Pat Robertson, Stephen Hawking, a Papal emissary, the Antichrist, and a Muslim convert named Chelsea offer their opinions as Hillary agonizes and attempts to avert Armageddon. .. . 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