The Washington Post, April 30th, 2006
Although she can't know what it's like to be Condoleezza Rice, Gloria Reuben is learning a thing or two about walking in her shoes. Ferragamos, to be exact. Every night in "Stuff Happens" -- the provocative play by David Hare that speculates on the Bush White House's closed-door planning for the war in Iraq -- the actress slips into the suit and guise of the secretary of state. "As soon as I put on that wig, with that flip," the soft-spoken Reuben says, "I'm off." Playing a woman of such prominence and complexity, of course, is not that easy. Reuben -- who, like Rice, is a classically trained ...
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