num_pages: 63
description: A 2 act play for 15 males, 2 females and 2 children. Some character doubling possible"... The best new play of the crop is Rum and Coke, a wry, poignant look back at the can-do optimism and patriotic naivete that led the U.S. to stumble into the Bay of Pigs invasion. Playwright Keith Reddin, 29, was a child of four when CIA-backed Cuban insurgents made their disastrous landing in 1961, but he captures with compassion and accuracy the Kennedy Administration's fundamental the belief in a nonexistent Cuban underground that was only waiting for a signal of support to rise up and overthrow Fidel Castro. Reddin presents the Bay of Pigs fiasco as a dress rehearsal by America's best and brightest for their misjudgements in Vietnam. Some of the fumiest scenes depict the white-collar macho of bureaucrats who react to caution as a sign of deficient manhood..."- William A. Henry III, Time Magazines March 3, 1986
language: English
title: Rum and Coke
titlecomplete: Rum and Coke
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Broadway Play Pub