Devil With the Blue Dress: play about Monica Lewinsky opens in London

The relationship between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky has inspired a new political drama that gives the perspectives of five women in the White House – and uses a non-speaking saxophonist on stage to represent the former US president.

Kevin Armento’s play Devil With the Blue Dress opens at the Bunker theatre in London this month, in the wake of a Vanity Fair article by Lewinsky in which the former White House intern wrote that the scandal had left her with post-traumatic stress and described Clinton’s actions as “a gross abuse of power”.

The play is named after the stained outfit belonging to Lewinsky that provided DNA evidence countering Clinton’s statement that he “did not have sexual relations with that woman”. Armento says: “It became really important to me that part of this play is recontextualising our relationship with Monica Lewinsky as a public figure. It’s time to remember that she was 22 when this happened, that her boss abused power and that if there’s anything we’ve learned in the last few months, she is not unique for having experienced that.”

Source: theguardian