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
Stylized
Ottawa in the 1920's, pre-legalized birth control. A young working-class girl, falls in love with and marries a stable-hand. After 2 difficult childbirths, doctors tell her that she shouldn't have any more children, but don't tell her how to prevent pregnancy. When she inevitably becomes pregnant again, they face a grim dilemma.
Realistic
An intimate look into the sexual life of a young woman as she struggles with the power of her desires. Sorrel grew up with professor parents, where carob was dessert, reading passages of Canadian poetry aloud was entertainment, and canoeing was the only sport encouraged. No one really noticed the studious Sorrel until she turned seventeen, when late puberty suddenly transformed her into a hot dork. Boys wanted her and girls loathed her, and all at once Sorrel discovered the joys of sexuality and the pain of social rejection. Sorrel enters college as a self-proclaimed loser with no female friends, but then she meets Maggie. Maggie’s unwavering friendship helps her shed her inhibitions and become more truly herself. The two women grow older, but when Maggie is diagnosed with cancer, Sorrel must choose between raw feeling and devotion.
