Saturday, March 21, 2026

The Plea, by Jason Zencka
Pivot Festival of Contemporary Arts

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

In The Plea, a young attorney tries to convince a younger client to take a life-changing plea bargain over the course of three meetings in a jailhouse visitation room. Their argument is intimate, urgent, and recursive, and the two characters must continually decide how far to leverage their power and their vulnerability in an effort to get what they need from one another. With each encounter, the pair draws closer to a trial date that threatens to test the parts of themselves they hold most dear, as well as liberate the truths they would rather keep locked away.

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