Patriot Act: A Reality Show by Charles Duncombe, is the winner of the first Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Playwriting Award — and selected from over 200 entrees from six nations. Patriot Act is a disturbing and complex labyrinth of a conversation between an American patriot and a seemingly innocuous interrogator who, with the Patriot Act in hand, twists the very definitions of patriotism and Americanism.