Yesenia Iglesias and Felicia Curry in POTUS at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater running October 13 through November 12. Photo by Kian McKellar.

The Women Making it All Happen, in spite of the person in charge

5 min 6 mths

The subscript for Arena Stage’s newest play POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive (POTUS) is no false advertising. The hilarious, absurd, and poignant description is exactly the experience you’ll get from watching Selina Fillinger’s POTUS. 

POTUS would score negative on the bechdel test, if that were even possible. It’s about seven women whose lives orbit around one man: the President of the United States of America, also known as POTUS. 

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