With manic glee, Martin Schwartz's new comedy tears down the veneer of professional politeness ... and shows audiences what diplomats are "really" like underneath. The year is 2005 and somewhere in Central Asia, a quartet of hapless cultural attachés tries and absurdly fails to put on a comic theater festival with the collaboration of a corrupt local government. In the midst of a human rights disaster, the performers they've booked refuse to show, forcing the diplomats to take matters into their own hands. With sex, drugs, insanity, and multilateral negotiations, "The Diplomats" is a fresh new farce of the highest order, brought to the stage by the envelope-pushing Dark Porch Theater.
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With manic glee, Martin Schwartz's new comedy tears down the veneer of professional politeness ... and shows audiences what diplomats are "really" like underneath. The year is 2005 and somewhere in Central Asia, a quartet of hapless cultural attachés tries and absurdly fails to put on a comic theater festival with the collaboration of a corrupt local government. In the midst of a human rights disaster, the performers they've booked refuse to show, forcing the diplomats to take matters into their own hands. With sex, drugs, insanity, and multilateral negotiations, "The Diplomats" is a fresh new farce of the highest order, brought to the stage by the envelope-pushing Dark Porch Theater.
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