“In the pantheon of polarizing political figures, one might be hard-pressed to find one quite like Lee Atwater, and playwright Lucy Gillespie delivers a fascinating exploration of the man and his policies in Son of a Bitch. People praise Sorkin for this rapid-fire style but more often than not, it is easy to disconnect from the characters whose language and pace is a barrier to access. Here we have a much stronger example of what really goes back to Howard Hawkes’ comedies from the 1940s. The patterns of speech come out of the character, not merely out of a style enforced from the outside.”
