Chicago Theater Review: PUFF: BELIEVE IT OR NOT (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company)
THE FICTIONS THAT MAKE FACTS This two-act comedy relishes a cruel contradiction: false facts. Rich with rancid exposés, its 150 minutes indict press-agent "puffery," strategic lies that trigger self-fulfilling fates, colonialist xenophobia, and "collusions in deception" that are perversely preferable to proof. It all sounds ferociously familiar. But it's not the gasbag bombast of a […]