On Sunday evening I sat thumping my chair in a suburb of Frankfurt, accompanying Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton singing "Yes We Can," and thinking No I Can't stand any more of this.
The Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival, running in New York through this weekend, was established as an outlet for shows considered too marginal for the main stage.
I contend that in these permissive days, an adversarial theater has become undistinguishable and redundant.