Paul Grellong’s talky, twisty American campus thriller about moral compromise and the limits of free speech gets a luxuriously cast and designed British premiere from Dominic Dromgoole here. It’s an enjoyable and provoking watch, though the number of issues Grellong crams into 100 minutes means it’s necessarily schematic.
Julian Ovenden’s Prof Charles Nichols, a smugly self-declared “free speech absolutist”, has invited white supremacist Benjamin Carver to speak at a private Boston college. Tanya Franks and Giles Terera are the Jewish principal and black alumnus – now a telegenic academic – trying to dissuade him.
