Third at Actors Workout Studio

Laurie Jameson is a brilliant professor at a New England college. She copes with her aging father who is displaying symptoms of Alzheimer's disease; and with her visiting grown daughter, who above all wants not to be like her mother. Her best friend and colleague is fighting cancer. Laurie is vexed by a student, one Woodson Bull III by name (nicknamed "Third"), who is attending college on an athletic scholarship. His sport is wrestling, and his ambition is to be a sports agent. He is a number of things upon which Laurie frowns: He is male, white, Waspy, perhaps slightly right of center, privileged (she assumes) and, worst of all, an athlete. When he submits a paper on King Lear that displays exceptional critical thinking, she has Third brought up before an academic board on charges of plagiarism. After all, an athlete couldn't possibly have an original thought, could he? In the end, however, Third might compel Laurie to re-examine her assumptions about her life, her career, and the world around her. As she enters the final third of her life, her views of politics, her pigeon-holing of other people into neat categories, her values, will all be called into question.