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EMAV Review: NCT’s 'Good Kids' offers a fine ensemble

Updated: Mar 18, 2019



★★★½☆'s - Satisfying

Naomi Iizuka’s Good Kids is a nonpareil ensemble piece that is getting a top tier staging at Nevada Conservatory Theatre.

Director Darren Weller has staged a restless, constantly morphing production that is uncompromisingly compelling and disturbingly contemporary, mirroring today’s headlines.

The plot concerns Chloe, a free spirited, sexually active high school student. At a liquor-infused party, Chloe can’t remember what happened, but she wakes up in a strange basement, unclothed. Everyone is talking about it. In a world of Twitter and Facebook, documentation of a group sexual encounter gone bad is shared and re-tweeted. We are not sure whose version of the events to believe.

It is hard to believe that the film "The Accused" with Jodie Foster exposed this same scenario almost thirty y