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NEW YORK — When I first saw Tracy Letts’ “The Minutes” in 2017 in Chicago, director Anna D. Shapiro’s sizzling Steppenwolf Theatre production felt like a takedown of Donald Trump’s
Small town governance? Tracy Letts’ play says we’re all beasts underneath.
But this intense play now feels aimed not so much at Trumpism but at how small-town council and school-board meetings are turning into war zones, their traditional reliance on Robert’s Rules of Order supplanted not just by screaming matches but by quietly devastating executions of majority power.