“But the playwright Robert Myers submits just enough evidence in this solidly built, well-paced, 75-minute melodrama to make his persuasive dramatic case: Atwater’s ascension as the symbolic occasion for the final burial of idealism in American politics.”
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“Atwater still made his mark – not only because he played blues guitar at a 1988 inaugural ball but also because his ruthless, nihilistic approach to campaigning transformed dirty politics into an art form.”
Continue reading“This acclaimed one-man play explores the strategems, cynicism and passion brought to politics by Lee Atwater, self-styled master of negative campaigning and the fun-lovin’ Dixie dude equally at home in the world of delta blues and “dirty tricks” political strategists.”
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“The newly ambiguous Atwater became, at his expiration, a complex political figure and ripe content for a play. “Fixin’ to Die, a one-man show by Robert Myers, is the result…”
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“Playwright Robert Myers claims to have been “a political campaign watcher from the age of 5, an odd preoccupation for a child, but one that paid off later in life.”
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“Playing to nearly full houses in the 125 seat theater, before a fair representation from political campaigns, the Atwater play is on a weeklong run…”
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“This one-man show, written by Robert Myers and starring L.A. actor Bruce McIntosh, uses Atwater’s own words: some vicious, some funny, showing a zeal to do anything to win.”
Continue reading“Myers and McIntosh bring out all the charisma and seductiveness of Atwater’s breezy brilliance. The guy’s vital, he’s fun, he ups the ante in a gathering just by entering the room.
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“In his one-man play, “Fixin’ to Die: A Visit to the Mind of Lee Atwater,” which has been produced in Los Angeles and Charleston, South Carolina, Robert Myers has the Atwater character going on rat-a-tat (and appealingly) about his dirty tricks.”
Read article“Fixin’ to Die: A Visit to the Mind of Lee Atwater, tells of Atwater’s rise to power as an adviser to George Bush’s 1988 campaign, and how, at the end of life he apologized to those he felt he had hurt.”
Continue reading“I believe the play is fairly balanced and benign,” said Ed McQuire, dean of the College of Charleston’s arts school. “I also don’t think a university ought to take the position of not producing a play because it is savage.”
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“While watching Robert Myers’ seductive one-man play, “Fixin’ to Die: A Visit to the Mind of Lee Atwater,” you keep wondering what Atwater would think of George Bush’s inept reelection campaign.”
Read article“People see it as an important piece of theatre that really can allow them to look in the mirror and say, ‘This shouldn’t happen,’ Wells says.”
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