Actually
Oberon Books · Paperback · October 31, 2017
At a raucous party during their freshman year at Princeton, Tom and Amber connect in ways that seem innocent enough at first.
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- Who it’s for
- For readers interested in difficult questions of sexual consent
- Themes
- Sexual consent, Competing perspectives, Gender, class, and race
- Genres
- American Plays, African American Plays, Plays by Women
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At a raucous party during their freshman year at Princeton, Tom and Amber connect in ways that seem innocent enough at first. But as things progress, they find themselves in murky territory, with ramifications that could affect the rest of their lives. What actually happened between them?Actuallyexplores the difficult question of how to define the point at which sex ceases to be consensual.
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Tom, a black music student, and Amber, a shy Jewish student, each make their case, addressing the audience, not one another. Each has their own version of what they believe to be true. They give evidence to a Campus Committee which is ill-equipped to handle such cases.Actuallyhas been described as "an extraordinary piece of theatre. The brilliance in Ziegler's writing is in its ability to explore the issue of each character's history, mixed with gender politics, social class and race to indicate the unconscious desires that influenced their actions on the night."
Who it’s for
- For readers interested in difficult questions of sexual consent
- For readers drawn to plays with competing accounts of an event
Where it sits
| American Plays | 63% |
|---|---|
| Plays by Women | 49% |
| African American Plays | 41% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Performing Arts
- How Cultures Work
- Minority Studies
- Authors
- Anna Ziegler
- Publisher
- Oberon Books
- Published
- October 31, 2017
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Sexual consent · Competing perspectives · Gender, class, and race
- Reading lane
- Performing Arts