The Amazing Adventures Of a Gregarious Dissident.

A wildlife conservationist? A union supporter? It's sometimes hard to believe that Theodore Roosevelt was a Republican. But he was never one to reflexively conform to party ideology, as Michael O. Smith demonstrates in his informative one-man show, ''The Bully Pulpit,'' which he also wrote. Set almost a decade after Roosevelt left office, in 1918, at Sagamore Hill, his estate in Oyster Bay, N.Y., the play gives us a Roosevelt who, entertaining visitors in his study, reminisces about his upbringing, his adventures in the American West and with the Rough Riders in Cuba, and his political achievements. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]