As we speak seeing throngs of protesters climbing the steps of the Capitol.

I can see at least half a dozen protesters scaling, literally climbing.

The walls of the Capitol.

I had every constitutional right to carry a weapon and take over Congress just because the laws written does not mean it's the right law.

As absurd as some of the lines are.

You know, there's nothing crazier than reality itself.

There's no better way to consume this topic than this play.

Fatherland.

Don't turn your back on me.

your turning your back on me as a traitor I am not turning my back on you.

Is that what's happening here?

If you turn me and you are a traitor.

A traitor.

Get shot.

This is special.

Because this is an insider's story.

We can watch as many different documentaries as we want, but there hasn't been any personal narratives about Jan six.

And it's not just about the politics.

And it's not just about the event.

Yes, those are traumatizing, terrible experiences.

But this story is a metaphor for people fighting against each other, for the audiences that will sit down and experience it.

It's a very personal, intimate experience, and everybody feels a little bit more touch than they would if it was on a screen.

Who did you meet with in the car Special Agent Hightower?

What is his assignment with the FBI?

Domestic terrorism.

Theater can be in dialog with with its nation and with its community.

That is, to me, thrilling.

And I think that is deeply important for young people, for young artists to know that theater can do that.

Given the screenshots of my dad's.

Messages, the audio recordings that I made, I told him about my dad joining an extreme militia.

All of his meetings that he's had online, I showed him the Fox News video.

That's my dad.

You're playing a real person.

You're playing someone who actually exists.

And to give anything less than 150% seems cheap.

It's my job as an actor playing my character to put my character in the best light, to do the best I can for my character.

What I like about this play is it's not preachy about the subject.

We all do our bit within it to the best of our ability and let the audience sort out with whom they agree.

So rather than offering help for your father, you sent an online tip to the FBI on Christmas Eve pass the witness.

I knew this story that I wanted to tell.

I knew that I wanted this to be from the son's point of view.

I've never done anything quite like this before.

Taken a trial transcript, actually thousands of pages of trial transcripts and collated it into a script.

It was important to me that every word in this play be verbatim to create a narrative that would tell this remarkable and deeply human story a courtroom drama and personal family story.

Your father was there when an epic historical thing happened in this country.

And guess what?

Im not done yet What else did you tell the agent?

That my father threatened to kill me?

Every word, every line is ripped straight out of something that me my father or even my sisters have said in the past.

There's very little words to give to it.

other than scary for me, I'm reliving these situations.

I couldn't do anything else but cry for a little bit.

But I kept myself together and appreciated the lengths to which this play went to to give some reality to this theater performance.

It's education, first and foremost, and for this play, there's a lot of stuff in it that, you know, maybe other people aren't going to get because it is so specific to my situation yet again.

I never thought anyone in this room would feel the same things I did.

How terrifying it all is.

I didn't know about Jackson's story when I got this part and were two days apart.

I'm two days older than him, which is even more.

wild we're the exact same age, we graduated on the same year and we have very polarizing lives.

He fights for what he thinks is right, and there's not a lot of people out there who do that.

I can't imagine what it's like to be him.

Honestly, thinking these moments are going to be private that end up changing your life, You get to see yourself on stage.

It's beyond the kind of courage I would have.

I think I talk to my wife about it.

She came, saw one of the previews and she said that had to be hard for him to see the good times.

Having almost an ideal father son relationship before all this stuff happened.

The whole thing is like a Greek tragedy.

Choosing side Choose a side or die.

I put you in this world.

I can take you out.

imagining him holding so much of this inside.

He's only 22 years old, this young man.

But he's remarkably poised and smart and astute.

He was fully embraced by the cast and then on opening night, brought him up on the stage and Jackson took a bow with the company.

And it's just really, really a special moment for all of us seeing this.

It will help a lot of people.

Thousands were affected by January six.

Millions are affected by radicalization being politically socialized in more and more extreme ways.

And this shows it.

We went in there, they scurried away like rats and hid.

That's how you do it.

Heroes.

For me, it's specifically to humanize.

A lot of these people are the victims of it.

My dad and me, myself, in this whole situation, as hard as it was, I do feel better and I hope everyone else does as well.

After watching this.