![]() Patrick insists he quit the fraternity the day after the incident, which he describes as an alcohol-fueled mistake by an ignorant 18-year-old. As for the campaign, it hums along until someone who went to college with Patrick reveals that decades earlier - during a fraternity hazing - he and Patrick scrawled a hateful racial slur on the dorm room door of fellow freshman Jamal (Samuel Campbell III), who is African-American. While supportive of her husband, Gaby resists efforts by ambitious assistant campaign manager Leslie (Kayla Kennedy) to transform her into Michelle Obama 2.0. ![]() ![]() Patrick consistently misinterprets it as "case and point," which besides having a slightly different meaning, carries an air of final authority.Īssistant campaign manager Leslie (Kayla Kennedy), right, offers political advice to Gaby (Melanie Loren) in First Folio Theatre's production of Meridith Friedman's "The Firestorm." Take Patrick's misstatement of the phrase "case in point," which Merriam-Webster defines as an illustrative, relevant or pertinent case. "But not nearly as cute," Patrick responds. "My second husband is going to be so much better," Gaby teases. But their artfully muted conversation hints at tension below the surface of a marriage that may be more (or less) than it appears. Tension is evident the first time we're introduced to Melanie Loren's determined Gaby, who comes from an upper middle-class, Scarsdale, New York, family, and her Caucasian husband Patrick (Steve O'Connell, who resembles a young Jeff Daniels), a middle-class Midwesterner.Ĭlearly, they love each other. The action unfolds on Angela Weber Miller's minimalist set consisting of narrow, widely spaced, polished wood slats whose gaps suggest cracks in the marital and political facade. ![]()
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