Telling tales out of school

SEXUAL AND POLITICAL TENSIONSON college campuses are a rich seam of plot material, from the novelist David Lodge’s droll 1980s send-ups through to David Mamet’s Oleanna. A new era of stand-offs over consent, culture wars and the wavy borderline between overdue “Me Too” reckonings and a culture of hysteria whose flames of accusation burn bright offer theatre an ethical maze for a rising generation to navigate. Alma Mater at London’s Almeida, by the Australian playwright Kendall Feaver, is relevant to current debates about how a generally benign set of students, teachers and parents can end up at mutually destructive cross-purposes — with the emphasis on the cross, as reputations implode and authority is inverted. TAKE YOUR MOST WOKE YOUNG RELATIVE WITH YOU AND YOU’LL BE FIGHTING ALL THE WAY HOME…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, August/September 2024

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