Without knowing the context of his life, one might look at Robert F. Kennedy's record of public service and wonder why anyone would write a play like Good Bobby, now at 59E59 Theaters. After all, Kennedy served less than one full term in the Senate, spent only four years as Attorney General of the United States, and ran for President but died at the hands of an assassin's bullet well before his nomination could be secured.

But anyone who lived during the 1960s -- those turbulent years when Bobby Kennedy emerged from the shadow of his slain brother, John Fitzgerald Kennedy -- knows that RFK might be the most tragic Kennedy of them all. And the triumph of writer and star Brian Lee Franklin i[...]