Scott Shrake: "Adopt-a-Candidate": Surprises from Underground Theatre

Published: November 13, 2007, 12:49 pm

Last night I attended "Adopt-a-Candidate" at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre here in the D. of C., only eight blocks from the White House. This fifth performance by the eXtreme eXchange theatre troupe (founded 2004) explored electoral politics through discussion-provoking mini-plays. Six playwrights were given a choice of three 2008 presidential candidates, then had three weeks to choose one and put together a sketch. Producer Gwen Grastorf told me that by and large, the troupe's members are not politically oriented. This is their way of getting more involved in politics. (One giveaway was when one of the actors referred to the Kos in "Yearly Kos" as kaws, not kose, the real pronunciation for those in the know.) I myself can relate, living in D.C., but not being in politics. The subjects of the sketches were Dennis Kucinich, Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, Mike Gravel, Mike Huckabee and John McCain. The plays were surprisingly high-concept for this sort of thing, with lots of

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