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National News See other National News Articles Title: Feds Spend $60,000 for Play About First Gay President Who Fights Zombies in WH Basement The National Endowment for the Arts gave $60,000 for the production of a play about the first openly gay president of the United States who has to fight zombies in the basement, and who has a cheating First Man. Sen. Jeff Flake (R., Ariz.) highlighted the grant for Zombie: The American in his running series meant to expose wasteful spending. The year is 2063 and Thom Valentine, the first openly gay President of the United States, faces a host of problems, reads the Woolley Mammoth Theater Companys description of the play. An imminent civil war, the threat of an African invasion, an adulterous First Gentleman, and zombies in the basement of the White House! With his power, his marriage, and the nations well-being at stake, he must decide what he cares most about saving
and at what cost. From the recesses of Robert OHaras warped imagination comes a classically-inspired sci-fi thriller about a young Commander-in-Chief searching for the strength to hold our union together, the theater company said. Zombie: The American had a one-month run in Washington, D.C., this summer. Tickets cost between $35 and $68. Its thrilling to be tackling a play about the Nations capital of the future, the plays director Howard Shalwitz said. Sen. Flake criticized the project as an example of egregious spending, saying, With spending like this, brain-eating zombies shouldnt be a problem for D.C. The Washington Post panned Zombie: The American as a frustrating muddle. The play gets so lost in its own conceits that youd welcome an actor stopping a scene to say: Wait. Whats the point of this again? That question certainly occurred to me, as events lurched inexorably toward incoherence, wrote Peter Marks, the Posts chief theater critic. Some reviews were positive. A shock-your-mama must-see
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