KURT GARDNERblogcritics, artsbeatlacertified reviewerJune 16, 2017
Part comedy, part wish fulfillment and – to many – bigly tragedy, Transition is a sharply written production that imagines what may have been discussed during the meeting between Barack Obama and Donald Trump just after Election Day 2016....
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A well-written play that avoids the low bar of turning Trump into just a punching bag for feel-good jokes and instead tries to accurately depict how the meeting might have gone down and lets the humor arise from a realistic depiction of Trump's outrageous personality. While a farce might have been more entertaining, this approach has much more value....
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This is a play that I strongly recommend that people see — whether in the Fringe incarnation or subsequent public or private productions. The message it conveys about the man this country elected in 2017 is chilling in an absurdist way, because, indeed, absurdity is in the Oval Office. For anyone that loves Meeting of Minds, for anyone that loved JDT, for anyone that loves great political dialogue — this is the play for you.
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