American Dream or World Nightmare? Texas Border Patrol agent George WWIII teaches you how to 'stop the tourists' in this one man satire on Homeland Security!

Presented as a United States Border Patrol Training class, Craig Ricci Shaynak is George WWIII, a Texas Border patrol agent who sounds alarmingly like George W Bush. The show features actual quotes from Bush, the "Commander in Thief", and points out the inherent hypocrocies of American culture and politics in a non-threatening but honest way.

"Free comedy at the Fringe can be such a hit or miss affair, with much of it falling flat. Thankfully this was not the case with Craig Ricci Shaynak's one man satire on the state of American homeland security and paranoia. Portraying a Border Patrol guard, he leads the audience in the manner of an instructional meeting as he makes sharp jibes at the inherent racism and stupidity that lies within much of contradictory messages which come from American society, its foreign policy and views on other countries.

The show was well contained with a air of friendliness, Shaynak certainly knows how to keep his audience at ease, handling both hecklers and latecomers with a smile and a jibe, the only letdown being a slightly unpolished feel to the piece, which may in fact have simply been down to the location and the constant barging in of patrons. This still remains a very funny and enjoyable piece of comedy and worth seeing."

Craig Ricci Shaynak has been involved in theater as an actor, writer and director since the second grade when he starred as Gepetto in PINOCCHIO. He graduated with a very useful degree in Medieval Studies from the University of Chicago, where he was a student of the renowned Shakespeare scholar, David Bevington.