Patient #1

Synopsis

The year is 2010, the place an elite psychiatric clinic, the Patient #1 is - the ex-president, George W Bush!

"Donald Freed is a writer of blazing imagination, courage and insight.

His work is a unique and fearless marriage of politics and art.

I take my hat off to him."

-Harold Pinter "The play's unapologetically political author, Donald Freed, has made a career of hunting out horror as well as humanity in an age that seems bent on self-destruction."

-The Los Angeles Times "We are in the presence of an outstanding dramatic artist, one of huge intelligence, political daring and theatrical imagination."

-The Gate Theater, Dublin "Donald Freed is the most political and pertinent of all American playwrights."

-Studs Terkel "PATIENT #1 is a powerful, disturbing and continually gripping drama which caused me to weep for America."

-Ronald Harwood