Smarter Than You: Trump Derangement Syndrome Run Amok

“Smarter Than You” is a ten-minute, five-character play about two nasty elite couples who are so convinced of the “rightness” of their leftist politics that they conduct monthly dinner parties to make fun of a conservative person whom they choose at random and consider to be intellectually inferior. It takes elements from the French play and movie of the same name, “Le Dîner des Cons” or “The Dinner Party [of the idiots]” where certain elite couples invite an intellectually challenged person to dinner so they can make fun of him or her. In this play, however, (as in the French version) the “Conservative Dope” is not as dopey as these elites think and in this play specifically, there are some signs that one member of the two couples is becoming tired of their monthly “put-down” game.