Tail! Spin! is an inventive new comedy drawn verbatim from the leaked e-mails, raunchy texts and tell-tale tweets that brought down politicians Mark (“Appalachian Trail”) Sanford, Larry (“Wide Stance”) Craig, Anthony (“I Was Hacked”) Weiner, and Mark (“Underage Page”) Foley.
Tail! Spin! is an inventive new comedy drawn verbatim from the leaked e-mails, raunchy texts and tell-tale tweets that brought down politicians Mark (“Appalachian Trail”) Sanford, Larry (“Wide Stance”) Craig, Anthony (“I Was Hacked”) Weiner, and Mark (“Underage Page”) Foley.
"The playwright Mario Correa and the director Dan Knechtges have concocted a play that turns these unseemly stories into mordantly funny burlesque. There’s Larry Craig, the Republican senator from Idaho caught in a gay-pickup-in-bathroom sting at the Minneapolis airport. There’s Mark Foley, a Florida Republican in the House whose habit of exchanging dirty digital talk with under-age congressional pages got him in hot water. I probably don’t need to remind you of the career-suicide-by-tweet that was committed by New York’s own Anthony Weiner, the lone Democrat in this hall of shame. Rounding out the quartet is the irrepressible Mark Sanford, the South Carolina governor who turned the phrase “hiking the Appalachian Trail” into a winking euphemism for getting a bit on the side — and who is even now running unopposed for a new term in Congress."
New York Times
Charles Isherwood