Susan Sarandon to Play Laura Bush on Stage

by Andre Soares

 

Susan Sarandon (Atlantic City, The Client, Stepmom) Playbill has reported that Academy Award-winning actress and liberal activist Susan Sarandon will play U.S. First Lady Laura Bush in a reading of Tony Kushner’s Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy at the Long Wharf Theatre, in New Haven, Connecticut, on October 25.

In its exploration of "political morality and moral relativity," as per the release, Kushner’s Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy has Laura Bush reading Dostoevsky to the ghosts of Iraqi children dressed in pajamas.

Sarandon is set to star in a film version of The Exonerated, which she also did onstage. She is also schedule to appear in John Turturro’s musical Romance & Cigarettes.

For more information, www.LongWharf.org.

 

 

 

 

by Andre Soares | November 15, 2004 | Filed Under Actors, Politics, Theater 

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