Office Hour by Julia Cho

The first scene is merely plot exposition (it has to go somewhere). Three professors discuss a problem creative writing student whose writing and behavior are worrying. The rest of the show illustrates a visit of this student with one of the professors during her office hour. This visit plays out in a variety of ways that result in one or both of them dead, but, also, sometimes connecting. The different scenarios feel like the envisionings of the professor (the things she dreads could happen and the things she hopes could happen). In this way, the audience is introduced into the mind and experience of this potential school shooter in a way that they never would be if he maintained the complete silence that he has been keeping. It finds an interesting balance between cheesy heart-warming teacher gets through to troubled student and stark reality of fear and uncertainty.