Blood of the Lamb-The Cutting Edge by Middlebury Acting Company

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Presented by Middlebury Acting Company, Town Hall Theater's professional resident theater company, delivering playful, intimate and conversation sparking productions since 2001.

In a time about two days from now, Nessa, traveling from LAX to JFK, finds herself diverted to Dallas. Trapped in a room with Val, a lawyer, Nessa just wants to leave on the next plane out. But this is Texas, and Nessa is pregnant and Val is on the phone with legislators who are pulling the strings. With new laws in place Nessa will not be allowed to leave the state until after she gives birth. Can Val be persuaded to go against her convictions, putting her own job and future career on the line in order to help Nessa escape? A political thriller.

“Blood of the Lamb is an urgent new play about choices: The choices that are taken from us and the choices we can still make.”—Front Row Center

THE CUTTING EDGE: AN OFF-BROADWAY PLAY READING SERIES

In 2017 MACo inaugurated The Cutting Edge Staged Play Reading Series, curated and directed by Rebecca Strum. The Cutting Edge Series offers three contemporary, relevant, intelligent staged readings featuring top Vermont actors, followed by lively talk-backs each year, and has proven to be very popular with our audiences.