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Potus: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive

Potus: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
Author: Selina Fillinger
Publisher: Samuel French (cover may change)
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 96
Pub. Date: 2022
Edition: Acting
ISBN-10: 0573709998
ISBN-13: 9780573709999
Cast Size: 7 female

About the Play:

POTUS is a full-length comedy by Selina Fillinger. In the brilliant, all-female political satire POTUS, a group of unwitting heroines, ranging from the Chief of Staff to the mistress to the First Lady herself, must keep the toxic office culture of the White House from tipping into international disaster. Will they grab a little power for themselves in the process?

POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive is a riotous and irreverent look at sex and politics set in a fictional administration rife with gaffes and stumbles. One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. A derogatory comment, a summit gone awry – it's a bad day at the White House. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief, the country, and possibly, the whole dang world, out of trouble. Horrible bosses make life miserable in a variety of ways, but when the doofus in charge is the President of the United States, the stakes of maintaining workplace sanity are even higher. POTUS skewers the proud American tradition of feckless male leadership while also hinting at a better way forward.

POTUS premiered in 2022 at the Shubert Theatre in New York City, making Selina Fillinger, at 28, one of the youngest playwrights to be produced on Broadway. This all-female farce took Broadway by storm in a star-studded production that earned three 2022 Tony nominations. Since then the play went on to become the third most produced play of 2023 with regional premieres at professional theatres across North America.

Cast: 7 female

What people say:

"I am woman, hear me roar – with laughter, at POTUS: or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, playwright Selina Fillinger's delicious feminist farce... There are no secondary characters here, but a tight, fiercely funny ensemble of women... irresistibly funny." — Variety

"Gleefully filthy." — New York Times

"A broad, zany, old-school comedy... You can feel how hungry the spectators are to laugh together, and they get to do it often in this silly, fast-paced lark." — TimeOut (NY)

"Sly wit and inspired goofiness." — The New York Sun

"...a breath of fresh air on Broadway.... The likelihood that you will laugh until your face hurts is one of near certainty." — Entertainment Weekly

"The next best thing to Veep has arrived." — The Washington Post

About the Playwright:

Selina Fillinger is an American playwright, TV writer, and screenwriter. Her plays have been produced on Broadway, off-Broadway, in Chicago, London, and major regional theatres. She has developed TV with AMC, Freeform, Hunting Lane, and Hulu, and a feature with Chernin/Netflix. She wrote for the third season of Apple TV's The Morning Show.