Complicit is about journalism in the era of waterboarding.
 
In this case, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Ben Kritzer is being threatened by a special prosecutor for revealing secrets about CIA black sites.  What makes his circumstances more poignant -- this same journalist once wrote a column suggesting that perhaps we could no longer afford to be so “squeamish” about torture.  But that column is now ancient history – as Ben is now being called before a special Grand Jury to tell what he knows.

And the play charts the suspense of learning whether or not Ben will.

And it does so in a world where things have changed. Where the goal posts have moved. Where jailing a journalist for lacking in patriotism is, for some, exactly what’s called for. It’s in this environment that we watch Ben, his wife, and his lawyer navigate the slippery ethical landscape presented during an era that anticipated "fake news".