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This is Government

Ella Stevens as Stevie (Supporting)
June 2022
Written by Nina Kissinger
with the Agnes Nixon Festival of New Work at Northwestern University
Directed by Madeline Oberle

After a bomb threat places all congressional buildings on lockdown, three summer interns find themselves stuck in the one place no one has ever wanted to work overtime: the U.S. government. As the crisis unfolds and their snack supply runs out, they question what power, if any, they have in this increasingly unstable system. Nina Kissinger's dark comedy, THIS IS GOVERNMENT, grapples with the real-time consequences of political disarray.


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