From this week's Loose Lips:

Dayna Hanson's The Clay Duke, a kaleidoscopic reenactment of a real school board shooting, blew people's minds at On the Boards last weekend. Wade Madsen and Thomas Graves were outright eerie as the shooter (yes, two men playing one, often standing right next to each other). Among other odd/riveting parts: Sarah Rudinoff in bureaucratic drag, Peggy Piacenza elaborating the contents of a purse, and a whole animal-mask thing.

The Clay Duke was a 90-minute spin-out based on a seven-minute video—if you saw the piece but haven't seen the video, you should watch it to fully appreciate what Hanson did with her source material. It begins with the shooter, Clay Duke, interrupting a school-board meeting with "I have a motion," then talking about how his wife lost her job with the district, how they're going broke, how elected officials screw people with taxes and budget-slashing, and how he's prepared to die.

You can read more about it in last week's preview, as well as comments left by Duke's daughter:

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A comments thread about an extremely sensitive subject that starts upset and resolves with warmth and gratitude—it's like an internet miracle.