In the age of Trump, instead of people of quality, honesty, conviction, and skill, we have clowns, adolescents, warmed-over fascists, and incompetents.
Much in the story has always been harsh and defiant, but there has always been a good amount of old-fashioned heart in the play and that seems to be missing here.
I have been looking forward to seeing this play, only the second edition I have ever seen on stage, and my hopes and prayers have been answered, for this is a definitive production of a masterpiece that has long taken a third place position in the canon of the playwright's works.
