Don’t miss this glowing review of Hindsight in this week’s New Yorker magazine.
Now Playing: Hindsight
By Vinson Cunningham
How to write a political play? This show, presented by Fault Line Theatre, at the Paradise Factory, and written by Alix Sobler—who also stars, anxiously, as the Playwright—reveals just how fraught and difficult the job is, especially if you think politics depends on truth. The Playwright, laptop always in tow, frets through the composition of a play about the Fairness Doctrine, whose abolition, in 1987, may or may not have landed us in the hot epistemic water we’re wading through today. That “may or may not” is the uncertain axis on which Sobler brilliantly makes the audience swing. Those clichéd and much derided “both sides” multiply deviously. Under the direction of Aaron Rossini, a wonderfully versatile and antic ensemble—Andrea Abello, Craig Wesley Divino, Lynnette R. Freeman, Daniel Pearce, and Luis Vega—alternates roles impressively, playing the top brass of the F.C.C. as well as the Playwright’s news-poisoned family. See “Hindsight” to watch that pit in your stomach be turned into art.