The Manchurian Candidate at Tacoma Little Theatre

Mystery and intrigue surround you in this political thriller.Set in 1999, young American hero Raymond Shaw is decorated for saving his troops in a peacekeeping mission in the Middle East. He returns to the U.S. to find his wealthy widowed mother has married the right wing racist Senator John Iselin. Their goal of reaching the White House gets closer and closer as a game of solitaire figures prominently in the murder of everyone who blocks their way. As a tightly wound plot of espionage, brainwashing, and ruthless ambition unwinds, Raymond Shaw doesn't appear as the war hero everyone thought he was.