orate

Politicians orate, American flags proliferate and, even more than usual, many windows on the world are tinted red, white and blue.

Students debate or orate about controversial topics surrounding free speech and the Constitution.

It featured a version of the Gettysburg address as orated by the president at the time, Dwight D. Eisenhower.

“It’s the idea that acting is a conversation, that in real life, people don’t plant their feet and orate. That was what James wanted from us.”

That the speeches in “Undelivered” were never orated does take some of the helium out of their balloons, but in Nussbaum’s able hands, this cruise through what-might-have-been offers a hell of a fun ride.