Student Body

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Company: Beau Theatre Co.

Genre: Play - Drama

Venue: 13 School of Contemporary Dance

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College students get too drunk at a party. A girl is videotaped having sex or was she passed out and being raped? And once aware of this videotape, what do her contemporaries do with it?

• Winnipeg Fringe 2017: read our reviews

That's the provocative premise behind American playwright Frank Winters'sStudent Body, presented here by a solid 10-person cast. But Winters's play has some flaws, one of which is that bringing in so many characters means we only get the roughest sense of who they are and the action sometimes gets muddied as we try to keep track of them all.

A play that maybe imperfect, butis nonetheless incredibly timely and sadly relevant.- Joff Schmidt

But this is a really a play about issues gender issues, sexual assault and, especially for these 10 characters, moral culpability. There are fascinating questions within this, butStudent Bodyalso spends much of its hour-long running time in circular arguments and yelling before hitting an abrupt conclusion.

It's given an admirable production by the young local cast, who show a lot of talent and promise and who bring a play that may be imperfect, but is nonetheless incredibly timely and sadly relevant, to the Fringe.