The Mueller Report has been dissected in every major media news outlet, thousands upon thousands of tweets and has even been made into a graphic novel. Now it’s getting the stage treatment.
Over-the-Rhine’s Know Theatre will present a one-night-only staged reading of The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts on Oct. 24 at 8 p.m., written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning playwright and screenwriter Robert Schenkkan (the mind behind All the Way, which Cincinnati Shakespeare Company will stage in spring 2020).
Described as a “fascinating (and surprisingly funny) dramatization of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report”, the show promises to bring “into vivid focus just what is at stake when self-serving interests threaten our democratic process.”
Such a production is a feat in itself — the 448-page Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election is so dense and complex that many lawmakers and government officials haven’t even read it. Directed by Lauren Carr, Ohio Governor’s Award-winning Director of Education and Outreach of Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, the reading marks Know’s first SecondStage event of their 22nd season.
The bipartisan legal advocacy group Law Works has provided this script to theaters across the United States with the goal of ensuring that the public has access to the findings in the report in a more digestible format. The organization live-streamed a reading earlier this summer, which garnered over a million views, according to Deadline. The star-studded cast included Annette Bening, Michael Shannon, Kevin Kline, John Lithgow, Frederick Weller, Ben McKenzie, Noah Emmerich, Justin Long, Jason Alexander, Gina Gershon, Wilson Cruz, Joel Grey, Alyssa Milano, Kyra Sedgwick, Alfre Woodard, Piper Perabo, Zachary Quinto, and Aidan Quinn. It also featured endorsements by Mark Hamill, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mark Ruffalo, Bob Balaban, and Sigourney Weaver.
Tickets are $25; rush tickets (at the door 10 minutes prior to curtain, if available) are $15. For more info, visit knowtheatre.com.
This article appears in Oct 2-15, 2019.
