It is 2018, spring semester, junior year, at Helen County High, the only high school “in a one-stoplight town”—that may soon acquire a second stoplight, we learn—in northeast Georgia.
In the opening scene of Kimberly Belflower’s play, John Proctor Is the Villain (Booth Theatre, to July 6), Carter Smith (Gabriel Ebert), who at first seems to be the ideal teacher of young minds—comically ideal almost, so right-on and empathetic, bouncy, and fun—is taking his class through the definition of sex.
The entire class recites: “The biologic character or quality that distinguishes male and female from one another as expressed by analysis of the person’s gonadal, morphologic, chromosomal, and hormonal characteristics.”
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