1999
by Stacey Isom Campbell
In 2019, celebrated film professor and Oscar-winning producer Emma Middleton faces professional ruin when a student's viral TikTok exposes her for assigning films by an accused rapist—but the student, Naomi, has a deeper agenda. Through alternating timelines, the play reveals how Emma and Reese's ambitious partnership was destroyed in a single night, and how Emma's choice to accept hush money and build her...
In 2019, celebrated film professor and Oscar-winning producer Emma Middleton faces professional ruin when a student's viral TikTok exposes her for assigning films by an accused rapist—but the student, Naomi, has a deeper agenda. Through alternating timelines, the play reveals how Emma and Reese's ambitious partnership was destroyed in a single night, and how Emma's choice to accept hush money and build her career on that silence has haunted both women ever since. A searing exploration of complicity, survival, and the stories we tell ourselves to live with our choices, 1999 asks whether we can separate art from the monsters who made it—and whether those who stayed silent are monsters too.
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