Synopsis
Rush Limbaugh in Night School
Published by Dramatists Play Service
1 Male 0 Female
Granatour suggests Spanish lessons. Donning pseudonym and disguise, Rush attends language classes at the New School for Social Research in Greenwich Village, New York City. There he encounters, in the flesh, all the people he has enjoyed mocking on the air
feminists, leftists, environmentalists. And there he also meets Nina Eggly, a fellow middle-aged student who awakens Rush's dormant romantic urges. Mutual passion flares. What Rush doesn't know is that Nina is really a former Weather Undergrounder, long since chased into hiding by the FBI
There is a Byzantine web of additional plotlines, including a New York Shakespeare Festival production in which Limbaugh is cast as Othello opposite Garrison Keillor's Iago and Jackie Mason's Roderigo, all under the direction of Spalding Gray
The play, framed as a public television documentary, is studded with political and social satire and builds to a wildly farcical conclusion
An hysterical satirization of the outspoken, right-wing talk show host, and the media. A lengthy run made this play a searing success among Off-Broadway theatregoers
"A dazzling, funny, dead-on-the-mark skewering of a 1990s media- maddened AmericaThe evening glows with the true satirist's affectionate regard for the very follies he lays bare. Varon is a comedic meteor" - San Francisco Chronicle
"Varon's work has a freshness, a playfulness and a theatrical expertise that makes it one of the nicest surprises of the season" - NY Daily News