Steve & Idi

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Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme are nowhere to be found in David Grimm's intense and disturbing dark comedy, Steve & Idi, now at Rattlestick Theatre. Instead, the play focuses on a frustrated playwright named Steve (played by Grimm) who, in his darkest hour, is visited by the ghost of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin (Evan Parke), who wants Steve to write his life story.

Steve is a flawed and lonely individual whose personal and artistic frustrations lead him further and further into the darkest recesses of his soul. Dumped by both his long-distance boyfriend Daniel and his literary agent Margaret early on in the show, he grows suicidal and possibly mad. He alienates his friends and fellow writers[...]