The play defeats expectations and shakes its audience up.
If, as the Dalai Lama says, "compassion is the radicalism of our time," then
Samuel D. Hunter's 2016 one-act, The Harvest, is the most
revolutionary play you're likely to see anytime soon. In this current,
angry cultural climate plenty of writers try to catch the zeitgeist by
weaponizing empathy: lavishing it on some, withholding it from others in
order to shake audiences out of their presumably smug complacency.…
The play defeats expectations and shakes its audience up.
If, as the Dalai Lama says, "compassion is the radicalism of our time," then
Samuel D. Hunter's 2016 one-act, The Harvest, is the most
revolutionary play you're likely to see anytime soon. In this current,
angry cultural climate plenty of writers try to catch the zeitgeist by
weaponizing empathy: lavishing it on some, withholding it from others in
order to shake audiences out of their presumably smug complacency.…