The script of Matt and Ben, the play about Damon and Affleck as written and played by two women, just arrived via UPS. These are the opening words:

(The stage is dark.)
MATT. It’s stealing!
BEN. Adaptation is the highest form of flattery!
MATT. Imitation?
BEN. Yes, Imitation. Adaptation. Yes.

So maybe this is how we can have theater with common cultural references – theater about celebrities, instead of about politicians. Instead of Henry 4 and King Louis.

And this experiment in representing celebrities without actually representing them – not impersonating, not even trying to cast close to them, deliberate cross-racial and cross-gender casting – lends itself so well to theater.

It’s not about re-presentation. It’s not about competing with film.
It’s a form of art and of satire that can only exist on stage.

I love it.

From Sam French’s ridiculously detailed prop lists:
“Large bakery cupcake with vanilla icing (1 per show, should be approximately 3 inches in diameter. If not available, improvise with a large corn muffin and a can of frosting)”

If not available? When is a cupcake not available, after the Cupcake Craze of 2006? One can only hope that at some future time in the universe a cupcake will not be available.