Come to a reading of a new play by Elaine Schiff directed by Shea Leavis. A contemporary trauerspiel (mourning play) in the tradition of 17c German Baroque theater— and Hamlet, Walter Benjamin argues.

Stuart, a longtime creative writing professor at a university in New England, has an ambitious and troubled young student named Samuel. After Samuel dies mysteriously, Stuart worries that it was somehow his fault. Samuel’s spirit won’t pass on—it haunts Stuart. What is Samuel’s mission, how can he pass on, and what does that mission have to do with his teacher?

Samuel’s haunting drives a wedge between Stuart and his new flame, the local news anchor Felicity, and between Stuart and another young ambitious student, Paige, who interns at the news station under Felicity. Samuel’s father, never onstage, comes to town to try and find out what happened to his son.

A psychic landscape reckoning with how sexual violence inheres at the university.