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  1. Aug 2018
    1. The play is set both on the eve and in the twilight of George W. Bush’s presidency. It begins in 2008 — in scenes that switch between a parole officer’s interrogations of two young men recently released from prison — and flashes back to 2000, to follow the road to the crime for which they were incarcerated.

      The time period and political relevance are given circumstances in the play. The emotions surrounding this time period may be more sub-contextual given circumstances that we can read more into and research and that may not necessarily be discussed in-depth int he text.