What: MCC presents the American premiere of Emmanuelle Mattana's satire about four private school seniors in debate prep for their upcoming face-off against their sister school. Given a controversial topic in which they'd be placed to argue a problematic point, they struggle to balance their need to virtue signal with their desire to beat the other team. And then even more hijinks ensue when one of them cheats by opening his laptop.
And? Mattana, who also stars as one of the four boys in the play, intends this as a statement not only on the toxic culture of using logic to perfect reprehensible arguments without thinking that can affect actual mindsets, but also on masculinity itself: the four boys are none of them played by cis men (some are played by nonbinary people, some by women). The show is dynamic, hilarious, a well-framed argument in itself, and ultimately deathly chilling. This is how it happens. This is how it keeps happening. This is how we got where we are (I'm trying to avoid spoilers here).
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