Highest Standard of Living

By Keith Reddin
Steven played: Bob   
This play is a comedy based on Cold War paranoia, tackling a big issue in a funny yet direct manner. The play raises socio-cultural- political questions that saturated political and personal lives after the Cold War all the way thru the 80’s. "Mr. Reddin has shown no hesitation about tackling what used to be called 'the big issues.' Yet as a sometime actor, he has the theatrical wisdom to avoid the documentary agitprop style that makes most American political theater a dreary chore. The New York Times ”Reddin has sensed--or perhaps he knows--that out there in his audience is a tremendous awareness and fear of just such simplistic conditions; and, by pushing that dread into a surreal world, beyond satire, in which our worst imaginings have come true, he has detonated a megaton explosion of laughter and release.... Chicago Tribune
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