In 1920, the officials of Harvard University convened a secret court by candlelight. Its brief: to root out, interrogate, and expel a cluster of homosexual students. Ninety years on, the Plastic Theatre company has adapted the (finally released) transcripts into an arresting expressionistic portrait of an Ivy League lynching: Fissures of class, rank, and relative guile widen to chasms as the boys turn on each other. Unnatural Acts is a nightmare from the dark age between Wilde and Stonewall, before the invention of gay identity and solidarity. Without a brotherhood to fall back on, no one lasts long under those cold, vivisecting lights.
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