{"product_id":"9780881456424","title":"Harmless","description":"\"At first glance Brett Neveu's new play looks like yet another ripped-from-the-headlines docudrama: a troubled college freshman submits a disturbingly violent first-person story to his fiction-writing class, consequently pitting an adjunct professor's insistence on the student's free-speech rights against the college president's need to protect his institution's reputation. (The story is based on a 2003 incident at San Francisco's Academy of Art University.) But when the student turns out to be an Iraq war vet and a military criminal psychologist shows up to investigate the possibility of war crimes-among other things-HARMLESS becomes a Mametian cat-and-mouse game full of ethical ambiguities and sickening betrayals.\u003cbr\u003e ...an engrossing and harrowing ride.\"\u003cbr\u003eJustin Hayford, Chicago Reader\u003cp\u003e\"A powerful jolt to one's head.\"\u003cbr\u003e Chicago Tribune\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadway Play Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50086806782192,"sku":"9780881456424","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780881456424","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}