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Campaign is a one-act slapstick comedy written entirely with excerpts from the fundraising emails of the 2016 Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump campaigns.

Wittily adapted for the stage by DETEXT, Campaign translates the slogans, pleas for support, and requests for funds, sent by both major party presidential candidates, that currently bombard the email in-boxes of American voters into irreverent and theatrical drama.

Building on DETEXT’s earlier works with Viagra® junk emails, Campaign explores the poetic possibilities of spam and the use of theatrical techniques and tropes in the millions of fundraising emails dispatched by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump over the course of the current election. Using a range of street theater tactics, Campaign presents the candidates’ recurring online solicitation, opponent bashing, and election updates as a digital form of “Theater of the Absurd” for the masses, not unlike Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano—also entirely written with found text lifted from course books.

Three 30-Minute Performances: 6 pm, 6:45 pm, 7:30 pm

Campaign (DETEXT, 2016, 30 minutes, performance)
Stage Adaptation by DETEXT
Directed by Sara Rademacher
Featuring:  Starr Kirkland (as Barack Obama and Democrat #1), Jennifer Michaels (as Democrat #2, Team Trump #2 & Trump Jr), Samantha Posey (as Team Trump #1), Domonique Pacitto (as Hillary) and Jonathan West (as Trump)











When: Thu., Nov. 3, 2016 at 6:00 pm
Where: Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle
212-299-7777
Price: Free with Pay-What-You-Wish Admission
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Campaign is a one-act slapstick comedy written entirely with excerpts from the fundraising emails of the 2016 Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump campaigns.

Wittily adapted for the stage by DETEXT, Campaign translates the slogans, pleas for support, and requests for funds, sent by both major party presidential candidates, that currently bombard the email in-boxes of American voters into irreverent and theatrical drama.

Building on DETEXT’s earlier works with Viagra® junk emails, Campaign explores the poetic possibilities of spam and the use of theatrical techniques and tropes in the millions of fundraising emails dispatched by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump over the course of the current election. Using a range of street theater tactics, Campaign presents the candidates’ recurring online solicitation, opponent bashing, and election updates as a digital form of “Theater of the Absurd” for the masses, not unlike Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano—also entirely written with found text lifted from course books.

Three 30-Minute Performances: 6 pm, 6:45 pm, 7:30 pm

Campaign (DETEXT, 2016, 30 minutes, performance)
Stage Adaptation by DETEXT
Directed by Sara Rademacher
Featuring:  Starr Kirkland (as Barack Obama and Democrat #1), Jennifer Michaels (as Democrat #2, Team Trump #2 & Trump Jr), Samantha Posey (as Team Trump #1), Domonique Pacitto (as Hillary) and Jonathan West (as Trump)

Buy tickets/get more info now