The year is 2010, the place an elite psychiatric clinic, the Patient #1 is - the ex-president, George W Bush "Donald Freed is a writer of blazing imagination, courage and insight. His work is a unique and fearless marriage of politics and art. I take my hat off to him." -Harold Pinter "The play's unapologetically political author, Donald Freed, has made a career of hunting out horror as well as humanity in an age that seems bent on self-destruction." -The Los Angeles Times "We are in the presence of an outstanding dramatic artist, one of huge intelligence, political daring and theatrical imagination." -The Gate Theater, Dublin "Donald Freed is the most political and pertinent of all American playwrights." -Studs Terkel "PATIENT #1 is a powerful, disturbing and continually gripping drama which caused me to weep for America." -Ronald Harwood