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Set, David Zinn costumes, Ana Kuzmanic lighting, Brian MacDevitt sound, Andre Pluess choreography, Dexter Bullard vocal coach, Gigi Buffington stage manager, Christine D. Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago 510 seats $105 topДЄ Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of a play in one act by Tracy Letts. In a world where Trump becomes president, the truth of вЂњThe MinutesвЂќ is laid bare: winning means controlling the underlying myths that govern our community interactions, while losing means oblivion.Д¬hicago Theater Review: вЂThe MinutesвЂ™ by Tracy Letts And yet вЂ¦ this play doesnвЂ™t just fit the moment, it goes a certain way toward explaining in human - if not pleasant - terms, why when certain stories are exposed as distortions or even blatant untruths, they are only told more forcefully. The President goes unmentioned the play would exist had he not been elected (the first draft was completed shortly after the election). Peel peels away at the story, using his knowledge of obscure bureaucratic notation to pry loose the events of the previous week, which involves a larger history, which as we learn, is not about truth but power.ДЄnd this, in the end, is how Letts manages to make this play all about Trumpism without being the slightest bit about Trump. Johnson (Brittany Burch).ДЇollowing his conscience, and his function, Mr. Peel looks for the minutes to fill him in on what occurred the week before, they are nowhere to be found, apparently not вЂњprepared for distribution,вЂќ despite the sure-footed competence of the carefully quiet council clerk Ms. Carp (played in flashback by Ian Barford) suddenly lost his Council seat. He missed the previous meeting when his mother passed away, leading to a barrage of condolences but not much information on why another member of the council, Mr. Peel (Cliff Chamberlain) is the Jimmy Stewart figure of the story, a clean-scrubbed, new-to-town, and recently elected member who felt called to public service with the birth of his daughter. Breeding (Kevin Anderson), the not politically correct, loud laugher who simply doesnвЂ™t understand why вЂњnormal peopleвЂќ should spend any money on things such as providing the disabled with access to enjoy the cityвЂ™s fountain.ДЄs is often the case, the outsider is our way into this world. Blake (James Vincent Meredith), a non-ideological African-American with alcohol on his breath and an idea to enliven the townвЂ™s beloved harvest festival with cage fighting (and, somehow, Abe Lincoln) and Mr. Oldfield (Francis Guinan), the longest-serving and frequently befuddled council member for the city of Big Cherry Mr. The cast of characters represents a humorously unflattering view of small-time civics in the rainy, unquestionably middle American small town of Big Cherry.

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