Leventhal

Full-length drama / 1f, 1m

Leventhal is a dialogue about the value of political anger. At a small liberal arts college in New England, two academics confer in the run-up to commencement day and the arrival on campus of one of the foremost architects of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Deborah Hill, a young novelist, has recently been fired in the wake of the publication of her “tell-all” satire of the college. Jon Leventhal is a retired chemical engineer from the private sector, and an adjunct lecturer recently let go for his role in an accident at a chemical weapons facility out west. Together they debate the form and violence of their protest on commencement day.

Leventhal was commissioned by and presented at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Roger Rees Artistic Director. The play was co-conceived with director Tyler Marchant, supported in part by the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, and received an Edgerton New Play Award.