Why has the National put this flimsy fake-news drama on its biggest stage?
4 / 10
The sense that we’re in a world of smoke and mirrors is beguiling and intellectually pointed; what falls by the wayside, though, is the detail that would flesh out the characters and their milieu. After some droll, loaded exchanges, in which Yvonne’s battle-hardened superior Pat (an imposing Lorraine Toussaint) fills her in on the paper’s history (“a pro-slavery rag”) – albeit she’s had prior steers from her lordly white boyfriend, who is high up there – the narrative tricksiness takes up a lot of the script.
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