Members of Congress are clearly known for their overly dramatic floor speeches and public appeals on cable news, but can this band of rogues actually act?
Perhaps if they’d actually practiced.
Tuesday night’s “Will on the Hill,” a fundraiser for the Shakespeare Theatre Company, was more of a testament to comedy than great theater.
“I got it,” said Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., playing a salty secretary of agriculture, as she rediscovered her lines in the black binder she was reading the script from.
Then there was Sen. Dick Lugar, R-Ind.
“I really don’t want to do this,” he said, approaching the front of the stage in his very Shakespearean garb. He left the audience wondering if that was a line, or if he really wanted off that stage. (It was a line).
Playing Vice President Biden, however, he at least delivered some zingers.
“I really just wanted to stop commuting on Amtrak,” he said, giving his character’s reasoning for coming to Washington.
Peter Jacobson of the TV show “House” performed alongside the ensemble of senators, House members and media types.
