Endless, illusory drama

By Wayne Brown
(Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now resides in Jamaica. This is the second in his Sunday Stabroek series on the US presidential election.)

 “Hillary Clinton is as good as dead… But the Clinton campaign shows no signs of slowing… So the question now is not just ‘How dead is she?’ but ‘When will she realize it?’” (Slate, Friday, March 28: ‘The Hillary Deathwatch’)

As drama it has almost too much of everything. Two protagonists as unlikely as in Beckett: an African-American and a woman. A huge, enthralled audience—the watching world, no less—only too aware that what’s unfolding on stage has implications that reach far beyond the theatre, conceivably into their own lives. The progressive revelation-through-conflict of the characters.