Annette Bening, Kevin Kline, John Lithgow, Gina Gershon, Michael Shannon, Krya Sedgwick and Jason Alexander are among the many stars delivering a live-stream reading of a stage adaptation of the Mueller Report, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan.
has been on the best-seller lists since it was released, but it's one of those books that few people get around to actually reading. It is, after all, an official document numbering hundreds of pages, much of its language consisting of dry legalese. Fortunately, playwright Robert Schenkkan has distilled the voluminous tome into its dramatic highlights for a theatrical presentation,.
It might have been appropriate if the actors had spoken in quiet monotones, the better to emulate Mueller's own stiff delivery when he finally deigned to offer some taciturn commentary to the press after the report's release. Kline, essentially channeling Mueller's brand of upper-crust restraint, did just that with his uninflected narration. That would have made for a rather dry evening, but fortunately Lithgow's Trump was there to pick up the entertainment slack.
Most of the actors didn't bear any particular similarity to the people they were portraying. But there were some amusing exceptions, such as Jason Alexander, who got laughs the minute he started speaking as Chris Christie, and Joel Grey, who infused his Jeff Sessions with an elfin charm that almost made you feel sorry for the beleaguered attorney general. Grey and Sessions seemed to merge into one to such an uncanny degree that you expected the actor to start singing "Mr.
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