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Peter Morgan is interested in rehumanizing that most dehumanizing of forces: power.
That, as Shakespeare might say, must give us pause.
Meatpacking bondage with LED tape, said the friend who saw the show with me).
The circumstances around Berezovskys death remain a mystery, and Morgan isnt here to clear anything up for us.
In Morgans telling of the story, in trying to install a puppet, Berezovsky frees a world-destroying beast.
Patriots chief pleasures are intellectual.
Morgans work is thinky, at times witty and always distanced from judgment.
And as his star rises and Berezovskys dims, the billionaire becomes an unlikely revolutionary.
Every time he entered, his billowing shirt had one more button undone.
Keens Putin is equally, embarrassingly blatant in his self-construction.
It would be funny if it werent deeply not a joke.
Little, in my experience, only ever wants to be perceived as big.
In the West, we have no idea.
At a certain point, these stop being mere interesting facts.
Yet the first stage direction ofPatriotsis: A bare stage.
Patriotsis at the Barrymore Theatre.
