Hillary and Clinton - Paperback

by Lucas Hnath (Author)

"A Machiavellian meditation on the sacrifices politicians will make to reach office." --The Economist

In 2008, in an alternate universe where anything can happen, a woman named Hillary Clinton is running for president of the United States of America. Struggling in Iowa against her more charismatic opponent ("The Other Guy"), she calls on her husband Bill for support. Bill offers her a deal, but when Hillary agrees to his help, she gets far more than she bargained for...

With Hillary and Clinton, Lucas Hnath takes a layered look at a political climate much like our own and deftly examines the sacrifices people make in order to obtain power. He offers up "an audacious, whip-smart, highly entertaining piece of writing" (Chicago Tribune).

Author Biography

Lucas Hnath's plays include Hillary and Clinton, Red Speedo, The Christians, A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney, Isaac's Eye, Death Tax, and A Doll's House, Part 2. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Kesselring Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, the Steinberg Playwright Award, an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, an Obie Award, and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama. A New Dramatists Playwriting residency alumnus, he is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect.