Analyzing the Theatrical Elements of Trump's Presidency with a Playwright and Professor

It’s all just a show, and sometimes that makes it all the more real. Playwright and theater scholar Hank Willenbrink joins Matthew to look at the spectacle of Trump through the lens of performance studies. 

From his childhood listening to Norman Vincent Peale, to his lifelong fascination with Broadway, to his TV celebrity, to the tableau vivants of evangelicals gathered round him to sanctify his holy mission, Trump hits his marks so well he doesn’t even need to remember his lines. Now he has a new role to play: the framed felon. 

Show Notes

Performing for the Don: Theaters of Faith in the Trump Era

About Me – Hank Willenbrink 

Bread and Puppet Theater — Glover, VT

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