A restaging of the presidential debates upended expectations.
In this experiment, Donald Trump became a female candidate named Brenda King and Hillary Clinton became a male candidate named Jonathan Gordan. The actors who played King and Gordon not only replicated what the real-life candidates said during the debates, but also mimicked their posture, gestures, tone, and facial expressions.
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when the performance was staged in the Provincetown Playhouse in New York in January, the audience reacted in unexpected ways.