Safe Space

The winds of change are blowing through the elite ivy-league halls of one of America’s most
prestigious universities. For students Isaiah, Connor, Annabelle, Omar and Stacy, on the
precipice of starting their adult lives, life is no longer about getting through a political science
lecture with a hangover and auditioning for the school acapella group. Confronting the
injustices of the past is top of the agenda – starting with the fact that the college is named after
a notorious defender of slavery.
And in this pressure cooker environment, everyone has to pick a side.
Beneath the passionate speeches, do old prejudices die hard? What happens to friendship and
love amidst frank debate?
Jamie Bogyo’s whip-smart, hilarious and bracing new play takes us into the volatile quicksand
of campus politics in the dying months of Obama’s presidency, and asks how – and if – we can
escape the past.