Elizabeth says this is great. WaPo agrees.
* GET YOUR WAR ON
(At Woolly Mammoth Theatre through Saturday)
Invective can be a wonderful tool. Especially when it's wielded as brilliantly as the verbal gunslingers brandish it in this play, which contains some of the funniest ridicule of a president and his policies I've ever heard on a stage. The five performers from Rude Mechs, an Austin-based theater gang, have other weapons in their arsenal: contempt. Fearlessness. A hilarious grasp of absurdity. And perhaps most important, a nifty array of targets, from the dubious authenticity of some of the CIA's intelligence-gathering to the intelligence of the president himself. Based on David Rees's popular Internet comic strip, the foul-mouthed production lampoons the administration's war on terrorism. The personable, conservatively attired actors are all swell, each schooled in a machine-gun-style delivery that compels an audience to stay on its toes.
-- Peter Marks
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