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Sexual misconduct and questions about identity examined

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Trafalgar Studios

ANNA ZIEGLER’S topical two-hander, employing a series of interwoven monologues, revolves around Princeton freshmen students and an accusation of rape brought before a university panel.

Yasmin Page’s insecure yet effervescent Jewish undergraduate, Amber, with a brief unsatisfactory sexual history, tries to overcome her awkwardness and fit in during the drink-fuelled weeks of the fresher’s party world.

Simon Manyonda’s sexually confident Tom, a black student from a low-achieving family, is also trying to come to terms with his strange, new reality in the extended, alcoholic induction to college life.

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