All hell breaks loose when Harvard professor Charles Nichols invites a contentious white nationalist to his yearly symposium.
His colleagues are very concerned about how this will affect both his and the University’s reputation; his students are vociferously protesting.
However, Charles refuses to budge. Is there another agenda in Paul Grellong’s Power of Sail?
This moral thriller investigates the thin line between hate and freedom of speech – who bears the ultimate cost?
This European première, directed by Dominic Dromgoole, promises to be one of the most talked-about plays of the year.
Paul Grellong’s other plays include Manuscript, produced by Daryl Roth at the Daryl Roth Theatre, which has since been performed internationally; Radio Free Emerson (winner of the Elliot Norton Award from the Boston Theater Critics Association for Outstanding New Script), which was commissioned and produced by Rhode Island’s Gamm Theatre. His plays have been read and workshopped at Center Theatre Group, MCC, Trinity Repertory Company, Symphony Space, Echo Theater Company, and the Cape Cod Theatre Project. His television credits include The Boys, Scorpion, Revolution, and Law & Order: SVU. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is an alumnus of the Playwrights Union.
Menier Chocolate Factory, 55 Southwark Street, SE1. Dates: 20th March – 18th May.
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