What begins as a tragedy of one sort becomes altogether another when the reality of the events leading up to the death of a frat pledge emerge from the shadows. Erin Dietsche's characters reveal much about the surface tension at a university, and the weaknesses and ass-covering of the officials, both at the frat and at the university are on full display when the pledge's mother arrives and learns the real truth. Tension and recrimination keep your full attention through to the very end.

A powerful and timely play about the death of a college freshman, where initial impressions are challenged, and tragedy begets tragedy.

WATCHED AT VALDEZ THEATRE CONFERENCE
A play that begins as a story about covering up abuse, and turns quite drastically into a play about a cover-up of a different, if similar, kind. Dietsche weaves a deft script that kept me tense and speechless, while considering how our initial impressions of people - and characters - affects our ability to view their less wholesome sides.