Based on the real story of renowned social psychologist Stanley Milgram, “Please Continue” recounts the infamous obedience tests at Yale in the 1960s. In that research, participants were asked to manage strong electric powered shocks to a topic who gave the incorrect response to a issue, not knowing which the shocks were artificial, and they were the real subject of the analysis. The play examines how the experiments gave insight into the character of authoritarianism and specific morality.

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

Please Continue is element of L.A. Theatre Functions’ Relativity Series offering science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is usually provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Basis, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.

Directed by Rosalind Ayres.

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

Tara Lynne Barr as Margaret Hopson

Will Brittain as James Sanders

Jake Green while Saul Dashoff

Taj Jegaraj as Harold Burden

Rob Morrow while Reverend William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

James Scully as Mitchell Halverson III

Mark Jude Sullivan as Francis Dunleavy

Matthew Wolf as Dr. Stanley Milgram

Sound Effects Musician: Jeff Gardner. Script Supervisor, Nikki Hyde. Music Supervisor, Ronn Lipkin. Affiliate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson. Recording Engineer, Sound Developer and Editor, Erick Cifuentes. Mixed by Tag Holden for The Unseen Studios, Western world Hollywood.

Recorded on the Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.