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Tom and Amber are in their first term at Princeton. He is a young, black piano student who combines sexual swagger with social apprehension; she is an awkward English major from a traditional Jewish background. When Amber tells a friend she was “almost raped” by Tom on a drunken date, her charge is referred to an academic inquiry. Mixing monologue and dialogue, Ziegler has Tom and Amber state their sides of the case and allows us to decide where the truth lies. Ziegler raises the question of how to define the point at which sex ceases to be consensual and suggests that campus committees are inadequate to the purpose.
