![]() The applause was for her, the laughter was with her.Ĭentered on the set was a massive wooden desk, at which Azar as Ginsburg sat when not crossing stage left to a podium to argue or downstage to address us intimately. ![]() All during the 90 minutes of surprising humor and stirring autobiography (plus fascinating lessons in equality law), the audience seemed to be responding not as to a theatrical performance but as if the revered Supreme Court Justice herself were in the house. Michelle Azar as Ruth Bader Ginsburg in ‘All Things Equal.’ Photo by Thee Photo Ninja.Īs directed with surpassing sensitivity by Laley Lippard and written by multiple award-winning playwright-composer-lyricist Rupert Holmes, this new one-person play All Things Equal: The Life and Trials of Ruth Bader Ginsburg had come to DC’s Lincoln Theatre for one night only, the last stop on a nearly sold-out 16-city tour. ![]() She was telling us what the doctor told her: “It’s time to take him home.” And we saw her nearly lose it. The iconic RBG before us was telling us about the time she learned that the cancer invading the body of her beloved husband Marty was incurable. As though on empathic cue, we in the packed theater fell silent too, for what seemed a forever caesura of breathlessness and concern. She seemed to be choking up, unable to speak, holding back a sob. She shared with us her smarts, her humor, her gumption, her warmth. She told us of her youth, her family, her education, her aspiration. The late great Ruth Bader Ginsburg - channeled onstage with uncanny grace by Michelle Azar - had been talking to us, her enthralled audience, as though we each were a visiting new friend being welcomed into her life.
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