Donald Drumpf Theatre: January 6 Revisted or Everything Is Broken

Deep listeners of “Donald Drumpf Theatre” will note that in the credits each week there is this sentence:It is often a mash-up of the week's news, and sometimes a radio news fantasy with song parodies and covers all mixed in a style similar to Spike Jones, Dickie Goodman, Dr. Demento, or Richard Foreman with comedy skits, sketches, radio waves, and more.On January 4 Richard Foreman died. On social media, Alanna Medlock wrote more eloquently about the theatre director’s legacy than I ever could:“RIP Richard Foreman, a downtown NY luminary with a deep influence on so many of us who frequently found ourselves in small black-box theaters below 14th Street in the late 90’s and early aughts (and before that and before that), sweating and rolling around and frolicking and arguing and questioning ‘what to do?’ and ‘how to do it?’It wasn’t just his plays, and the opportunity once a year or so to sink into a possibly incomprehensible—but so visually and sonically rich—world for a couple hours, staring dazed and slackjawed at the cuteness and silliness and brilliance of his performers, and bolstered by the giddy energy of his most devoted fans.It was the reverberations, out into the streets of the East Village and Soho and beyond, telling us to wander, explore, be inscrutable, keep making more shows, don’t wait for validation, just keep going and living and sharing space and surprising each other.”This episode of “Donald Drumpf Theatre” is dedicated to Richard Foreman.This week: "January 6 Revisted or Everything Is Broken." The “Donald Drumpf Theatre” radio show relives January 6 with plans afloat to take over Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal. Opening theme includes clips from Rod Serling; Bill Cosby; Donald Drumpf; Eric Cartman; Richard Nixon; Kent Brockman; and Jon Stewart. Thanks for the songs from Golden Earring ("Twilight Zone"), Bob Dylan (“Everything Is Broken,” “Driftin’ Too Far From Shore”), and The Smiths (“Panic”). Clips and excerpts from Stephen Colbert; Jimmy Kimmel; Hakeem Jeffries; The BlueAnon Shamen; Kamala Harris; J.L. Cauvin; Seth Meyers; Kaitlan Collins; and Desi Lydic. Episode 219!Below, the source material for this show."Donald Drumpf Theatre" is the weekly radio theatre show about a fictional presidency, with parody radio coverage of the radio and its headlines. Now with computerized news readers, and fewer meddling reporters, plus aggregated reporting, and automated music. 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