Love & Virtue

Whenever I say I was at university with Eve, people ask me what she was like, sceptical perhaps that she could have always been as whole & self-assured as she now appears. To which I say something like: ‘People are infinitely complex.’ But I say it in such a way—so pregnant with misanthropy—that it’s obvious I hate her.

​Michaela & Eve are two bright, bold women who befriend each other their first year at a residential college at university, where they live in adjacent rooms. They could not be more different; one assured and popular – the other uncertain and eager-to-please. But something happens one night in O-week – a drunken encounter, a foggy memory that will force them to confront the realities of consent & wrestle with the dynamics of power.

Initially bonded by their wit & sharp eye for the colleges’ mix of material wealth & moral poverty, Michaela & Eve soon discover how fragile friendship is, & how capable of betrayal they both are.
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Written with a strikingly contemporary voice that is both wickedly clever & incisive, issues of consent, class & institutional privilege, & feminism become provocations for enduring philosophical questions we face today.