I Interview Playwrights Part 184: Lee Blessing

Lee Blessing

Hometown:   Minneapolis.

Current Town: Brooklyn.


Q:  Tell me about When We Go Upon The Sea.

A:  When We Go Upon the Sea is a funny play about shame. It's set slightly in the future, on the night before George W. Bush goes on trial in The Hague for acts committed while he was the President. So it's speculative as well, of course. It doesn't suggest that anything like this will happen necessarily, but it helps us contemplate our own impulses to punish the man we twice elected to l...