DO YOU have to be a little mad to be a politician? And, beneath the flippancy of that opening gambit, have some politicians actually been, well, a touch insane while in office?

If a politician can be mad after the democratic event, what does that say about the country they ran, or the voters who backed them, or those who didn't but chose instead to make easy mockery?

American playwright Donald Freed wraps many questions inside his play, and his main thesis is that nations can go mad too, in a self-deceiving willingness to do bad things in the name of a greater good, that isn't good or great at all.

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