Spinning Into Butter February 4, 2011

Named one of the best plays of 1999 by Time, Rebecca Gilman's 'Spinning Into Butter' offers a brutally forthright story about political correctness and hypocrisy run amok on a college campus. After a volatile racial incident, the campus becomes a circus of doubt, recrimination, paranoia, rear-end covering, liberal sanctimony and, finally, some genuine insight. Blisteringly honest, at turns funny, shocking and sad, Gilman's fictional account feels more unfortunately real than ever.