Jenny Stafford’s SECRET HOUR, winner of the 2021 Next Act! New Play Summit, is a delicious and visceral look into the secrets we keep from ourselves and those closest to us. It's an unveiling of characters at their rawest and most vulnerable moments. This is the kind of storytelling that live theater was made for: to examine the human condition and connect us to who we really are. 

 

Thirty-five-year-old Kate is a professor of Ethics, with only one rule for her students ⁠—⁠ do not lie to her. She asks her students to answer the question, “Is your highest ethical responsibility to yourself, or to other people?” However, as Kate and her husband struggle to have a baby, she finds herself unable to answer it as she faces an ethical dilemma of her own. What happens when an unexpected event reveals Kate's deepest, darkest secret?

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“SECRET HOUR is a masterly, thoroughly involving theatrework; rich in humor and compassion for characters who ring with the authenticity of life.” ⁠—⁠The Berkshire Eagle

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