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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, FEBRUARY 9, 2020
BY ROSE ADAMS
Her kicks are fast as lightning!
Everybody will be kungfu
fi ghting in a new comedy
show that fi nally does
what Trump could not —
put rogue emailer Hillary
Rodham Clinton behind
bars. “Bandit: The Story
of Hillary in Prison,” playing
one-night-only at Williamsburg’s
Brick Theater
on Feb. 7, shows the former
presidential candidate
learning martial arts in order
to survive in a brutal
upstate prison. The jail’s
rough conditions, as well
as Clinton’s loss in the election,
bring out her inner
fi ghter, said the show’s creator.
“She’s a little bit hardened,”
said Nick Naney, a
Bushwick playwright and
comedian. “She’s someone
who’s fi lled with disappointment
and regret.”
The satirical show opens
with a brief backstory: After
Donald Trump wins
the election, a judge sends
Clinton to prison for using
a private email server during
her tenure as Secretary
of State. The play then cuts
to the fi ctional Douglas
State Penitentiary, where
Clinton struggles to fend
off the prison’s premier
bully, Phaidra, and her Poison
Kiss gang.
Clinton, a scrappy
fi ghter, forms a coalition
and becomes a formidable
martial artist, Naney said.
“I would say the audience
will be impressed
with her kung-fu skills,” he
noted.
The play is a comedy,
but it takes a serious look at
Clinton’s post-election state
of mind, said Naney.
“To lose that election,
even though it wasn’t exactly
valid, it must’ve
been a huge blow,” Naney
said. “We go deep into her
psyche. She has this resolve
in her.”
Naney, a Clinton voter
and current Bernie Sanders
supporter, decided to
write the play because of
his “obsession” with kungfu
movies — particularly
“Riki-Oh: The Story of
Ricky,” a 1991 fi lm in which
a kung-fu master goes to
prison, he said.
He began working on
“Bandit” earlier this year,
and said he would have
made her character less
sympathetic if he wrote the
play today.
“I wrote this before what
she said about Bernie came
out,” Naney explained, referencing
Clinton’s recent
claim that “nobody likes
Bernie.”
SECRETARY OF STANCE: Jessy Morner-Ritt will play Hillary Clinton in a new play about the ex-presidential
candidate learning kung-fu in prison. Photo by Caroline Ourso
The over-the-top action
ultimately portrays Hillary
Clinton favorably, but Bill
Clinton comes off less well.
In the play, the former president
ignores his wife’s desperate
pleas from prison.
“He’s kind of a sleazebag,”
Naney said.
“Bandit: The Story of
Hillary in Prison” at the
Brick Theater 579 Metropolitan
Ave. between Lorimer
Street and Union
Avenue in Williamsburg,
(718) 907-6189, www.bricktheater.
com. Feb. 7 at 8 pm
and 10 pm. $15.
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Hillary Clinton goes to prison in new play
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