Press Quotes
“… there are plenty of interpersonal fireworks exploding between the two characters who bring this two-act work alive. But the biggest explosions are reserved for the U.S. military, as this production is set during the Yanqui invasion of Panama in 1989, the so-called ‘Operation Just Cause.’ That duo of aforementioned characters is Archbishop Jose Sebastian Laboa and General Manuel Antonio Noriega … the main force generating conflict in DEVIL’S ADVOCATE is none other than politics. Imperialism, covert actions, narco-trafficking, gun running, terrorism, torture, psyops, money laundering, the Panama Canal, the Contras, Fidel, George H W Bush (hell’s hottest seat is reserved for this evil genius of mediocrity and his satanic son), et al, form the complex backdrop to a fairly simple plot. During Bush’s invasion of Panama, Noriega flees to the Papal Nuncio, the archbishop’s residence, to seek — in the immortal words of Quasimodo — sanctuary. There, ‘Pineapple Face’ (as the pockmarked Noriega was derisively called) confesses his ‘sins’ to Laboa, who — as the Vatican’s Grand Inquisitor — served, literally, as the eponymous ‘Devil’s Advocate.'” —Ed Rampell, Hollywood Progressive