WA Post: Elizabethan. Elizabeth Warren has a way with words.

[pnwmom]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/08/21/posts-theater-critic-is-reviewing-performances-democratic-candidates-this-installment-elizabeth-warren-cuts-shakespearean-figure-arizona/

Warren’s Tempe appearance was the first time in my travels as a theater critic on the 2020 campaign trail in which I was moved by a politician’s oratory, and I could feel that I wasn’t the only one. Warren’s team seated about 120 people on the venue’s stage to cheer her on, and one exuberant young man in the first row was clapping so ferociously, I thought his hands would bleed.

That kind of enthusiasm is difficult to manufacture. In this hall, it came across as genuine, in part because the speaker seemed to be seeking that kind of intensity. One of the most seductive attributes of great actors is that they create the impression they are giving you more of themselves — and asking you, as an audience, to give them more in return.

A Warren performance is a polished act of seduction. As the candidate makes plain — and even makes fun of herself for — she’s got a plan for everything, except maybe what you should have for dinner. But I’m drawn to something more elemental and just as vital for someone auditioning for the role of communicator in chief: How does a politician convince you that she understands the way you think? How does she share enough of herself for you to not only imagine you know her, but also to want to side with her?

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At other times, Warren can summon a bit too fiercely — almost comically — her disapproving inner schoolmarm. But unlike former vice president Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala D. Harris, the subjects of my previous campaign trail “reviews,” Warren has a fully evolved performance style, one that binds her roll-up-her-sleeves biography powerfully and fluidly to her average, working person’s philosophy. In a grittily poetic way, her spiel is akin to that of a folksy troubadour: She is the Springsteen of campaign 2020.

[tblue37]

1. As a (recently retired) teacher, I will say that effective teaching includes a fair amount of

theatrical performance, and Warren is an excellent teacher.

Furthermore, like all good teachers, she has the ability to make even complex material comprehensible.

[BlueMTexpat]

2. As a teacher in one of my

career incarnations, I heartily agree with your statements about theatrical performance and the ability to make even complex material comprehensible.

Both skills, honed by nearly 14 years in classrooms from elementary through university, helped me to be successful in later career incarnations as well, especially when dealing with other professionals and non-US nationals.

They are among the myriad reasons why I support Elizabeth Warren!

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3. I've been trying to post the same thought for weeks, but, you just

did it better in one sentence.

[tblue37]

4. That's probably because of the teacher part of my essence.😁. nt

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5. Bruce Springsteen of the campaign trail

That sounds about right. She speaks to all working people in ways they can totally get it.

[LincolnRossiter]

6. I'm a Biden supporter who's to the right of Warren...

She’s an impressive lady. She’s be my first choice far and away if I were closer to her policy-wise. Would be happy to vote for her against Trump.

[Politicub]

7. As a theater fanatic, I loved reading a critique of her performance.

She’s masterful in getting her message across and building excitement in person and on social media.

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8. Some are spreading BS that she is cold and doesn't connect.

That is what they WANT people to think.