A promising story and some briefly effective moments between characters, but the whole thing is dragged down by clunky transitions and ploddingly slow pacing of dialogue (you could drive a truck through some of those pauses).

I never really felt fully connected with the characters, partly because the show is staged on a traditional proscenium stage elevated above the audience which creates distance. A far more effective staging would be to perform this play in the round, so the audience feels part of the action (immersed in the seminar).

Finally, the play needs some major dramaturgy, e.g., advancing the story of the professor’s personal life to earlier in the play (we don’t learn anything about this character until very late).