Synopsis
Trump, a demi-God, is unjustly punished by the Gods—the political elites and the lying media—for his heroic effort to bring salvation to a suffering humanity. Chained to a rock, he is condemned for all eternity to have his liver picked out by a bird of prey only for it to grow back again the next day. He is visited by his sorrowing family Ivainia, Malignia, Erikus, and Juniorius; badgered by the Blind Seers (the pundits); comforted by a Chorus of Deplorables; browbeaten by the Lost Republicans who are enraged by what he has done to their party; and comforted by the Czar of the Dark Empire, Putinius. Finally, he has to endure the outrage of the taunts of his bitter rival, Hillaria, the Evil Witch of the East. Yet all is not lost. A deus ex machina in the person of the great God Chaos arrives at the last instant to deliver unexpected election results. In Trump Unbound, a pastiche of the Greek tragedy by Aeschylus, playwright Charles Duncombe, winner of the Fratti Newman award for political playwriting, takes a satiric look at the country’s new President and the bitterly divisive election that got him there.
About the Author
About the author: Charles Duncombe is the author of the City Garage texts "Atrocities" (2000), "Cinema Stories: Ceremonies of Unendurable Bondage" (2002), "Oedipustext/LA" (2003) and "Patriot Act: A Reality Show" (2004). He also wrote the company's adaptations of Heiner Müller: "Medeatext;Los Angeles/Despoiled Shore" (2000), "Frederick of Prussia/George W's Dream of Sleep" (2001); and "The Mission (Accomplished)" (2008). His English-language versions (with Frédérique Michel) of Moliere's "The Bourgeois Gentilhomme" (2008), "The School For Wives" (2009), and Sganarelle (2010), as well as Beaumarchais's "The Marriage of Figaro" (2010) were all produced to critical acclaim at City Garage. His play "Patriot Act" won the 2004 Fratti-Newman Award for Political Playwriting. All three of his Müller adaptations were nominated for the LA Weekly's "Best Adaptation" award, as was his contemporary version of "The Trojan Women: LA/Dafur Dreamscape" in 2010, as well as "The Bourgeois Gentilhomme." "The Marriage of Figaro" won the Weekly's award for Best Translation. He is also the author of the short story collection "Ceremonies of Unendurable Bondage and Other Stories" (2001). In 2009, along with Frederique Michel he was awarded the LA Weekly's "Queen of the Angels" award, and in 2011 he and Michel received the Los Angeles Drama Critic's Circle Award for "Sustained Excellence in Theatre." Other original plays for City Garage are "Caged" (2013), "Bulgakov/Moliere" (2014), "Timepiece" (2015), "Hamletmachine: The Arab Spring" (2015), which was nominated by Stage Raw for Best Adaptation, "Othello/Desdemona" (2016), and "Phoebe Zeitgeist Returns to Earth" (2016).
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