Phew! Essential reading and viewing at this moment. Using the community in a small, Indiana public school, Erik Gernand deftly comments on political polarization and the dangerous collision of personal identity and friction between ideologies. All of the characters have these delightful little human nuances which only underscore how complex humans are beneath the bluster of big, competing political viewpoints and the ways relationships and movements suffer when we forget that very thing. In Judith, we have a wonderfully flawed nucleus with an Aristotelian level of hubris that haunts her final...
Phew! Essential reading and viewing at this moment. Using the community in a small, Indiana public school, Erik Gernand deftly comments on political polarization and the dangerous collision of personal identity and friction between ideologies. All of the characters have these delightful little human nuances which only underscore how complex humans are beneath the bluster of big, competing political viewpoints and the ways relationships and movements suffer when we forget that very thing. In Judith, we have a wonderfully flawed nucleus with an Aristotelian level of hubris that haunts her final decisions in the play. Produce this now!