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Based on the true story of renowned social psychologist Stanley Milgram, “Make sure you Continue” recounts the infamous obedience tests at Yale in the 1960s. In that study, participants had been asked to administer strong electrical shocks to a subject who gave the incorrect answer to a question, not knowing that the shocks were artificial, and they had been the real subject matter of the study. The play examines the way the tests gave insight into the nature of authoritarianism and specific morality.

Includes an about Please Continue interview about science and ethics with Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, a Professor of Education in the Rossier College of Education, a Teacher of Psychology at the mind and Creativity Institute, and a member of the Neuroscience Graduate Program Faculty in the School of Southern California.

Please Continue is portion of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series offering science-themed plays. Major financing for the Relativity Series is definitely provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Base, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.

Directed by Rosalind Ayres.

An L.A. Theatre Works full solid performance featuring:

Tara Lynne Barr as Margaret Hopson

Will Brittain mainly because James Sanders

Jake Green while Saul Dashoff

Taj Jegaraj as Harold Burden

Rob Morrow as Reverend William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

James Scully as Mitchell Halverson III

Tag Jude Sullivan while Francis Dunleavy

Matthew Wolf as Dr. Stanley Milgram

Sound Effects Artist: Jeff Gardner. Script Supervisor, Nikki Hyde. Music Supervisor, Ronn Lipkin. Associate Artistic Movie director, Anna Lyse Erikson. Documenting Engineer, Sound Designer and Editor, Erick Cifuentes. Mixed by Tag Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.

Recorded in the Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.