In March 2003, playwright Tony Kushner published the first act of a new play,
"Only We Who Guard The Mystery Shall Be Unhappy" (full text), which features First Lady Laura Bush reading Dostoyevsky to the ghosts of dead Iraqi children in pajamas. The play has been performed at antiwar events, most recently at the American Airlines Theater as part of a MoveOn.org benefit, with Patricia Clarkson playing an angel and John Cameron Mitchell playing Laura Bush. In honor of this performance, Kushner wrote a new scene with Clarkson switching to play Bush, and Mitchell to play Tony Kushner.

Salon recounts the benefit performance and the heated post-performance discussion.