WS Chronicle

Kicking off its 2024 season, Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance will present Selina Fillinger’s gleefully feminist satire, “POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive.” Directed by Jamie Lawson, POTUS performs at Theatre Alliance’s Ihrie Theatre, 650 W 6th Street, Winston-Salem, Jan. 19-28. Single tickets are $19-$21 and are on sale now and can be purchased online at theatrealliance.ws. 

When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble. (Any resemblance to past White House shenanigans is purely coincidental.) 

Entertainment Weekly says of POTUS, “The likelihood that you will laugh until your face hurts is one of near certainty.” 

A derogatory comment, a summit gone awry, an anal abscess – it’s a bad day at the White House. Take a raucous romp through the halls of the West Wing in a riotous and irreverent farce about the men who hold the power vs. the women who get the job done.

 The cast for POTUS includes (in alphabetical order) Rebecca Askew (Dusty – His Dalliance); Katy Carroll (Harriet – His Chief of Staff); Mare Hutchinson (Margaret – His Wife, The First Lady); Heather Levinson (Jean – His Press Secretary); Jessie Stewart Lopez (Bernadette – His Sister); Ashley Pearson (Stephanie – His Secretary); and Brianna Witherspoon (Chris – A Journalist). The creative team for POTUS includes Jamie Lawson (Director); Suzanne Vaughan (Lighting Design); and Jeremy Engel (Sound Design).

Rated R – contains pervasive adult language, sexual discussions. (This production is not for the easily-offended.)

For more information about Theatre Alliance, visit www.theatrealliance.ws.