Ia. Two Korean War veterans reverently, but surreptitiously, burn a flag in memory of a comrade who has died. A seductive Uncle Sam pops balloons on his skimpy costume as he exposes both himself and his questions about the flag. A playwright fumbles for clarity on the issue of flagburning. These are a few of the characters in a new play fueled by the Internet and inflamed with the rhetoric of hotly argued points of view.
Reaction is one of the playwright's goals.
The issue of flag burning ignited Sannerud's ire whenever he heard of a constitutional amendment to ban flag burning. There are children being murdered. People are homeless and dying of diseases. People are wasting our legislative time. It was like everyone had the right to not be offended.