From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

It's The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

You can also with this show at KCRW.com.

I'm very lucky to have as my guest today, the actor, Isaiah Whitlock Jr., of course,

many of us know him from his work as the dazzlingly duplicitous Clay Davis on the wire.

But for those of us who are theater, goes, especially for those who live in downtown New York,

I've seen him in a number of shows at the public theater.

And those of us in Los Angeles now getting a chance to see him at the Geffen Playhouse

in a new production of the Atlantic Theater Company's Farragut North.

Isaiah, thanks so much for being here, first of all.

You're more than welcome.

Tell us a little bit about what Farragut North is about before we get into the rest of the show.

To put it bluntly, it's a play about hubris.

It's a political play.

It deals with the Iowa caucus on how you get someone elected for office.

It's also, it seemed to me, too, also about self-deception.

Yeah.

We have a tendency to have a certain amount of pride.

We have a need for have a certain amount of pride.

We have a need for power.

And rightly so, I mean, that can sometimes be a very good thing.

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