“…it was “Proving Up” that left me ruminating in its wake, torn between an experience that was in many ways deliberately unpleasant and the power of the statement its creators were unabashedly hammering home. It’s a work for its time: Its subject, at bottom, is the promises politicians make to the American people, and the staggering human cost to those who don’t realize that their efforts go against their own self-interest. Hard to watch on stage, yes, but even harder to live.”
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