ZERO by Ian August at Ashland New Plays Festival

Friday, October 23, at 7:30 pm PT
Sunday, October 25, at 1:00 pm PT

Deep in the woods of rural Connecticut lies a brick-laden Victorian mansion, the St. Vedastus Academy for Misguided Teens, a refuge for the newly violent, mildly sinister, and willfully corrupt. Nil is at least two of these things, and even in the eyes of more deviant classmates, suffers social death for it. But when schoolmate Harrison discovers a seemingly bottomless pit in the forest floor behind the school, Nil sees an opportunity to claw a way to the top of the heap. And unbeknownst to them, the pit appears to be getting larger and larger and larger.Zero is a narrated tale of the inexplicable and the unspeakable, a darkly comedic allegory about the relationship between addiction and empathy, the danger of simple solutions, and whether nothing actually exists anyway.TRIGGER WARNINGS: This play includes all the things. This aint no Disney Channel sh*t.