The Wager

By Mark Medoff
April 15-18, 2027

Directed by DJ Roberts '27

Ward, a Phys-Ed major who scores as often off as on the field, is roommates with Leeds, a brainy, tart-tongued graduate student who can only win with wit. Right next door lives another student Honor, the young wife of their Professor, Ron. When Ward boasts that he can seduce Honor, Leeds raises the stakes by betting if Ward is successful, Ron will kill him within 48-hours. Ward accepts the wager. Laughter, gunplay and some philosophical musings about love and madness ensue as all four characters find themselves increasingly ensnared in the web of lies they spin.