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Alma Mater

Kendall Feaver

The second play by Bruntwood Prize-winning playwright Kendall Feaver is a sharp, searching look at the generational divide between feminists.

Format
Ebook
ISBN
9780571392582
Date Published
11.07.2024
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Summary

It’s a culture that begins with a joke, a gesture, a throwaway word or a game between friends, and it ends in an act of violence.

Jo Mulligan is the first female master in her prestigious college’s history. Determined to create a space where everyone feels welcome, she starts dismantling old ways of working.

But an accusation of sexual assault within the college throws her tenure into turmoil, and Jo is pitted against Nikki, a student impatient for justice.

Alma Mater received its UK premiere at the Almeida Theatre, London, in June 2024.

Critic Reviews

Theatre’s most thoughtful take on the culture wars yet. On one level, Kendall Feaver’s excellent new play is a twenty-first-century update of David Mamet’s 1992 play Oleanna. It’s more multifaceted than that, though, twisting the dial with each successive scene to expose afresh the inherent, possibly limitless conflicts and contradictions within the absolutist language of social media, the equally intransigent narratives of power and privilege, and the less easily determined truths of personal experience.

Daily Telegraph
Critic Reviews

Utterly absorbing and very powerful. Feaver’s subtle writing [demonstrates] passion, wit and a strong sense of understanding – acknowledging complexity, refusing to allow for easy solutions and satisfactions. It’s both a challenging play and an important one.

WhatsOnStage
Critic Reviews

A thrilling confrontation of systemic sexual misconduct on university campuses . . . Thought-provoking and challenging.

The Stage
Critic Reviews

Kendall Feaver’s college drama about sexual assault impresses hugely with its intelligence and nuance.

The Times

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Kendall Feaver received the Judges’ Award at the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, Best New Play at the 2018 UK Theatre Awards, and the 2019 NSW and Victorian Premier’s Prizes for Drama for her play, The Almighty Sometimes (Royal Exchange, Manchester; Griffin Theatre Company, Sydney). Stage adaptations include: My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin (Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney) and Ballet…

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