This unsettling, powerful play explores rape culture and campus sexual assault in a multi-layered fashion. Fitzgerald centers the piece on the painful journey of Rachel while also examining the structures and societal forces that facilitate and perpetuate sexual assault as a wide-scale problem. All of the other characters are fully-rendered humans as well. It is particularly affecting that we get Trevor's complex and evolving point of view, Harriet's grim but realistic perspective, and the nuanced thread of Elizabeth's faith and religion. The recurring image/setting of the beach provides...
This unsettling, powerful play explores rape culture and campus sexual assault in a multi-layered fashion. Fitzgerald centers the piece on the painful journey of Rachel while also examining the structures and societal forces that facilitate and perpetuate sexual assault as a wide-scale problem. All of the other characters are fully-rendered humans as well. It is particularly affecting that we get Trevor's complex and evolving point of view, Harriet's grim but realistic perspective, and the nuanced thread of Elizabeth's faith and religion. The recurring image/setting of the beach provides powerful repeated visual motifs.
