The Human Terrain

March 19 – April 11, 2015 at HATTheatre

by Jennifer Blackmer


In this compelling military thriller, Mabry Hoffman, an anthropologist with The Human Terrain System, a real military initiative that embeds social scientists with combat units in Iraq and Afghanistan, is caught in the middle of an ethical dilemma as she tries to help a new friend. Blackmer’s two-act work is a taut, tense treatise that looks at the conflict that results when a civilian thrust into a combat situation must decide where her loyalties truly lie. Can her ‘gray’ world fit into a black and white war zone that can quickly desensitize human emotions or elevate them to their highest level?

Directed by Carol Piersol

CAST: McLean Jesse, Sara Heifetz, and Katrinah Carol Lewis, Daniel Kunkel, Dean Knight, Gordon Lewanowicz, and Saleh Ismael

AWARDS: RTCC Award for Best Play (2015), RTCC Award for Best Actress - Play (2015): McLean Jesse, RTCC Award for Best Supporting Actress - Play (2015) - Sara Heifetz