Dr. Lyssa Dent Hughes is a health care expert nominated for the cabinet post of Surgeon General of the United States. The media frenzy surrounding Dr. Hughes’s nomination and her television interview make for a humorous and timely commentary on partisan politics and public opinion polls.
Wendy Wasserstein [The Heidi Chronicles, The Sisters Rosenweig] has written a contemporary, "comedy of manners with moral and social heft", even more timely than its premiere in 1996.