When a controversial professor is invited to speak at a progressive college, and the students fracture into factions. The debate grows, the rhetoric flares - and in the wake of the unspeakable, principles fail and families and friendships are put to the ultimate test.
Keywords: politics, campus, xenophobia, radicalization, radicalism, activism, students, hatred, idealism, university, college, racism, Islamophobia
Produced by:
National Theatre School of Canada, Montreal, 2018
Centaur Legacy Reading Series, 2019
Northeastern University New Renaissance Theatre Company, 2019
and Boston Playwright's Theatre, January 2019
Genre: Drama
Running time: 75 minutes
Male roles: 4
Female roles: 3
Suitable for students aged 16+
"It’s a thrillingly alive piece of work that crackles with electricity as you approach it... We all talk the talk about the importance of “reaching across the aisle” but how many of us do it? Here’s a play that acknowledges just how hard that is but challenges us to do the work anyway."
- James Wilkinson, The Theatre Mirror