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.
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2017, The Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles
2017
Oberon Books
9781786823083
Play with Music
"Millenial retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac: Isabelle and Kirsten are best friends. When Kirsten breaks up with her toxic boyfriend she moves in with Isabelle. Isabelle is determined to make sure that Kirsten does not go back to her old boyfriend. Isabelle decides to help Kirsten get back into the dating game, but she goes too far and ends up creating a love triangle."
Realistic
"A solitary, young bank employee impatiently awaits the death of a silent, bedridden old woman, whom he believes is his aunt, filling the time with ruminations, recollections, and one-liners on mortality. Structured around what happens when an extremely self-centered and shallow person finds himself, through his own errors and inattentiveness, in a life and death situation with profound and far reaching consequences. A play of twisted circumstance, mistaken identity and surprising turns." - the first sentence from canadianoperaresource.org, the rest is from the publisher
