Spin Cycle in association with JCS Theater Company presents

ADJUST THE PROCEDURE

By JAKE SHORE

Featuring

ED ALTMAN, ADAM FILES, NICHOLAS MILES NEWTON, and MEAGAN MOSES

Directed by JAKE SHORE

Created with Zoom in mind

Running February 15 – March 7 on Stellar

Tickets available at www.SpinCycleNYC.com

Jake Shore’s new play, ADJUST THE PROCEDURE, starts out like any other Zoom meeting. These actors are so natural that you are tempted to turn on your camera and join the discussion. Kyle (Adam Files), Ben (Nicholas Miles Newton), and Aimee (Meagan Moses) are executive employees of a Manhattan university, and what begins as a regular briefing meeting slowly reveals cracks in the operation of a large “business” attempting to deal with the pandemic. Amidst paperwork, documents, reports, and buck passing, Kyle is compelled to introduce the human element. A student has committed suicide, and the Counseling & Wellness Center has dropped the ball. Receiving no satisfactory answers, Kyle demands a meeting with the Executive Dean (Ed Altman), who has all of the rationale but none of the humanity.

Struggling with the pandemic, deportations, public relations, politics, and death, the challenges of 2020 are wreaking havoc with the status quo. As this play questions whether it is easier to ADJUST THE PROCEDURE or adjust reality, it forcefully reminds us “When someone dies, there are consequences.” A timely play for troubled times. Well worth watching.

- Laurie Lawson -