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“Nervy! Timely! Dizzying! The humor in How to Win a Race War can be disorienting and thought-provoking! Forces you to think hard about your laughter. A stew of bigotry, cruelty, paranoia and general demented ickiness. Ian Allen inflates certain racial and identity-related stereotypes like giant balloons, so as to more incisively lambaste the mind-set that traffics in such prejudice. Periodically you squirm at the thought that you are enjoying the suspense too much!”
–The Washington Post

“Arch political satire! The Klunch dramatizes the horrors of contemporary life in How to Win a Race War. The laughter audiences experience is a recognition of what should never be normal in a democratic society!”
–Washington City Paper

“Ian Allen is a big thinker and smart writer with a body of work that has established him as one of DC theater’s premier provocateurs.”
–DC Metro Theater Arts

Starring
Brett Abelman, Grant Collins, Tony Greenberg, Matty Griffiths, Will Low, Matthew Marcus, Darren Marquardt, Connor Padilla, James Radack, Ned Read, with voice performances by Christopher Henley and B. Stanley

Things take a darkly hilarious turn with the highly-anticipated world premiere of Ian Allen’s How to Win a Race War – a three-part comic satire, replete with song-and-dance numbers and clocking in at just over three hours . The play is a parody of white supremacist “race war” fiction, which has proliferated in the years since Timothy McVeigh named William Pierce’s The Turner Diaries as inspiration for his brutal 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City.