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Was he a visionary or a corrupt racist with a god complex? The troubled legacy of Robert Moses, the master builder who shaped New York, comes under scrutiny
In Straight Line Crazy, a sold-out show at The Shed, Ralph Fiennes plays an angry Robert Moses designing New York City and its suburbs.
“Straight Line Crazy,” the British playwright’s portrait of the tsarist urban planner, scrupulously declines to portray Moses as blinkered and corrupt.
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In “Straight Line Crazy,” by David Hare, Moses sometimes tiptoes toward anti-hero status — lawbreaking, rude, bullying, quietly racist, vocally sexist — but gripped by a democratic vision for his grand building plans.
But his performance and a few fictional characters bring a wrecking ball to David Hare's new play