Staged Reading of
“Admissions”
By Joshua Harmon
Directed by Philip Schatz and read by Mary Toll, Russell Pluta, Justin Meacham, Jennifer Jasper, and Mary Ann Moran
Place: Acting Ensemble on the Avenue, 602 E Mishawaka Ave, Mishawaka IN 46545
This is a staged reading, performed with scripts in hand and using minimal props, costumes and sets.
One Performance: September 3, 2024 at 7:30 pm
Genre: Drama with some pointed wit Mild Adult Themes
The Story: An aggressively provocative play from Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews, Significant Other) that explodes the ideals and contradictions of liberal white America. It won the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Play in 2019.
Sherri Rosen-Mason is head of the admissions department at a New England prep school, fighting to diversify the student body. Alongside her husband, the school’s headmaster, they’ve largely succeeded in bringing a stodgy institution into the twenty-first century. But when their only son sets his sights on an Ivy League university, personal ambition collides with progressive values, with convulsive results. A no-holds-barred look at privilege, power, and the perils of hypocrisy.
“Astonishing and daring. An extraordinarily useful and excruciating satire – of the left, by the left, for the left – for today.”— THE NEW YORK TIMES
“The nuanced and competing truths in this 90-minute play are like a first act that dares its spectators to create a second out of post-show conversations.”— TIME OUT NEW YORK
“A smart, hilarious and provocative drama.” — THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
“The smartest, bravest play the West End has seen in ages.” – Spectator (London)
“Shockingly insightful and outrageously hilarious satire about class, race and the increasingly unbridgeable American cultural divide.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Bold. Brilliant.” – The Daily Telegraph (London)
“A blistering, disturbingly apt critique of how white supremacist ideas blight the white liberal elite.” – Chicago Reader
“Masterful. Expertly crafted. An absorbing drama and a prod to self-examination.” – Miami Herald
