Is the Professor teaching the Student? Is "The Lesson" teaching us? Is anybody learning at all?? Startling in its humor and its terror, "The Lesson" is pure absurdity. The Farm is starting the summer off right with this acerbic and wicked text that questions our capacity for growth and the ultimate goals of any system of knowledge.

Mark Sutton, Cody Harding, Beth Pierce. Directed by Matt Cosper.

A powerfully striking play about the desire for the "better life". Mae, a determined though uneducated young lady, yearns to transcend her meager existence on a small farm in rural America. As she struggles with her schooling and her housework Mae’s situation is aggravated by the sickly Lloyd and cantankerous Henry, who attempt to drag her back down into the Mud. As the two men continue to make their demands on Mae, she is absorbed once again into a world where right and wrong are blurred and her desires must inevitably be subsided for the whims of the two men. Mae must make a decision which will shake all of their foundations to rubble. This violent and disturbing play explores the existential condition of the individual's capacity for change inside of a volatile system that demands stagnation.

Matt Cosper, George Gray and Tara MacMullen.  Directed by Anthony Cerrato