Harmless

“At First Glance Brett Neveu’S New Play Looks Like Yet Another Ripped-From-The-Headlines Docudrama: A Troubled College Freshman Submits A Disturbingly Violent First-Person Story To His Fiction-Writing Class Consequently Pitting An Adjunct Professor’S Insistence On The Student’S Free-Speech Rights Against The College President’S Need To Protect His Institution’S Reputation. (The Story Is Based On A 2003 Incident At San Francisco’S Academy Of Art University.) But When The Student Turns Out To Be An Iraq War Vet And A Military Criminal Psychologist Shows Up To Investigate The Possibility Of War Crimes—Among Other Things—Harmless Becomes A Mametian Cat-And-Mouse Game Full Of Ethical Ambiguities And Sickening Betrayals. …An Engrossing And Harrowing Ride.”Justin Hayford Chicago Reader “A Powerful Jolt To One’S Head.” Chicago Tribune