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Title
Eric Zaccar's Starr's on Broadway
Description
Starr's on Broadway is a full length play for the stage, that set out to change the world, but will settle for the title of definitive social satire on the most ludicrous political events in this country’s history.
Whether or not anyone still wants to hear about Monica Lewinsky and Kenneth Starr is debatable, but I think this piece touches on a lot more than that. Using the Clinton story as a focal point, this play comically debates Vietnam, blacklisting, nuclear weapons, the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, free speech and numerous other perpetually topical and controversial issues.
Why was Kenneth Starr permitted to write a six hundred report about fluid drenched cigars, disguise it as vital information and put it on every bookshelf, television station and internet browser, so that school children of all ages would have free and easy access to it? Not forty years ago, Lenny Bruce was repeatedly arrested for delivering much less explicit monologues, that he called comedy, to audiences of seasoned adults who knew what they were paying to see. Why was a brilliant, caring and devoted man like Bill Clinton impeached for lying about something that almost every sexually active man or woman on this planet has twisted the truth about, at one time or another? Previous twentieth century presidents did everything from escalating wars for their own personal gains to setting off nuclear bombs in cities that were filled with families. Why was the biased and politically motivated Starr, who was not elected, but appointed, by the most right wing Republicans in congress, given free reign to break as many constitutional rules as he cared to, imprison people who hadn’t been convicted of crimes and destroy innocent lives at his own discretion? And how many of the world’s homeless and hungry children could have been sheltered and well fed, with the hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars that Kenneth Starr and his associates spent to find out that the president was guilty of nothing more serious than having a dozen little ten minute flings?
Languages
English
