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...Square (or so goes one playwright’s saying, I think). When the producers of the hit play Matt and Ben couldn’t find a venue in the area that would suit their playful fiction-based-on-fact one-act about the younger travails of Messrs. Damon and Affleck, they opted for a space as unlikely, and as good, as any: the Winthrop House Junior Common Room. This is where, Harvardwood lore has it, the illustrious Mr. Damon emoted his last emotion as a babyfaced undergrad actor, just before leaving to begin a now fabled campaign...
...Stone production Team America: World Police is a delirious send-up of the international save-the-world action genre spoofing every movie from the Star Wars trilogy to Knightrider to The Matrix and unsympathetically mocks every public figure from Michael Moore to Kim Jong-Il to, curiously enough, Matt Damon. And they do it with puppets. Unlike most politically-motivated comedies these days, there’s no clear slant towards either the left or the right. Team America is a throwback to the kind of movie that casts the establishment as the good guy and everyone who goes against...
...which opened “before J.Lo and just after Ben went into rehab”—to “the believability of these two women as guys more than the simple glee of ‘Let’s see Ben Affleck and Matt Damon get eviscerated...
Despite the sometimes playful, sometimes pointed roasting of Affleck and Damon, the actresses and playwrights have a deep respect for the two and hope that they would see the show as a way to laugh at themselves...
Patton cites high curiosity among the student body—with a possible future Matt Damon among them—when he discusses the production. “It’s a novel concept and everyone I’ve talked to seemed extremely interested in the show,” he says...