There was a moment in history when the world seemed focused on Richard Nixon's secretary, Rose Mary Woods, the woman responsible for erasing key portions of the audio tapes which might have implicated him in the Watergate conspiracy. Were the erasures accidental as she had claimed, or were they an act of loyalty to her longtime employer, party leader, and friend?

In Susan Bernfeld's structurally ambitious drama,
Stretch (a fantasia), now being presented by New Georges at the Living Theater, the woman we meet (played brilliantly by Kristin Griffith) is certainly capable of the latter. Whether muttering bitterly about our nation of "John Q. Know-Nothings" or grandly dragging on a cigarette an[...]