First Impressions of 'Blondie'

To my dismay this play was not about the culinary delight that is white chocolate brownies.....

Instead it is a hard hitting play about four characters (A,B,C,D) discussing and sometimes fighting about their political beliefs.
The characters remain unnamed throughout the play, only being referred to as letters. This immediately distances us from the characters also creating uneasy tension about the play.

-Why are they not named?

The play is incredibly bland and simple, with only a handful of stage directions. These stage directions are almost always instructing one actor to go and physically interact with another;

'catching his throat'
'Stopping his airflow'
'almost choking him'

In light of the recent presidential elections the theme of how a presidents appearance can affect the voters seems particularly poignant. I asked myself 'Did Obama deserve to win?' and 'Would America have voted for Romney if the other leading candidate had been white?'.
I feel this play really attacks the idea that politics is so easily affected and altered by our human reactions and sensibilities.
The line 'You thought you were safe because I wasn't an under sexed, over paid, unattractive, privately educated, smug middle aged man. All you saw was my face.' challenges all of our political history. This play is brutally honest in it's aims, It really holds to fingers up to politics and says 'Your ugly and I don't like it.'.

The staging of this piece has been intriguing me ever since I read it, If I were to stage it I would have a true Brechtian setup. All actors would remain on stage, dressed in a generic and unimportant grey t-shirt and trousers. The set would be bare but well equipped, by this I mean If a desk is needed it is fully described and set and not at all in a simplistic way. I would want this because I feel that the way the characters interact with their props is crucial and should be as believable as possible.

The Houla Massacre is a key stimulus for this piece, such a vivid and strong stimulus could make this play hard to act in a brechtian fashion.
I say this because Brecht liked to make his audience appreciate the humorous side of things.