About This Show
Here’s the perfect excuse to give the cops when you’re heading toward the Republican Convention. Say you’re going to see Homeland Insecurity, written and performed by Benjamin Franklin Carney III, and directed by Wayne Maugans.
Benjamin Franklin Carney III, a tenth-generation American with family traced from George Washington’s surveying team, and from the Ozarks to SoHo, grapples with ambivalence about his country roots in his new solo performance. Carney, with wit and heart, unearths his personal history, revealing an America full of tall tales, scandals, murders, and lies. The Republican Convention, though right around the corner, will not stay this intrepid courier from the swift completion of his appointed rounds alerting his audience to the news that truth and liberty might not be such a cliché after all. In Benjamin Franklin’s own words, “A lie stands on one leg, the truth on two.”