Running from September 3rd to September 6^th, Chrysalis Staging and the Stockton University School of Arts and Humanities Theatre Program proudly presented Promised Land in the Experimental Theatre. After volunteering to usher on opening night, I was invited back the next night to view the show. The play, written and directed by Lane McLeod Jackson, took place in a post-apocalyptic world where climate change has wreaked havoc and left the earth barely able to support human life. Abraham, played by Rodger Jackson, is a farmer/scientist trying to help move humanity forward. He has built a community with strict laws, such as when and how much people can eat and when couples are allowed to have children. Although his community is thriving (as best they can in this destroyed world) Abraham constantly feels conflicted over the amount of power and control he has over others. His wife Ester, played by Melanie McLeod, is always supporting him and reminding him of how the decisions he’s made, though harsh, have helped keep them all alive and fed. She supports Abraham in his work to move forward towards a better future. However, their daughter Rebbecca, played by Carla Gamarra, does not share their hopeful thinking and thinks that they should just accept the present reality and try to make the best of it. As things are starting to look bleak, in walks a smooth talking salesman named Elliot, played by Evan Williamson, who may have the key to what Abraham and Ester need – if they can trust him. This play causes people to question the morality in the way these characters are surviving. In a world where the end has already happened and people are struggling to survive, is there truly good and bad? Or does survival become the only thing that matters? The play puts its characters in a permanent grey zone, leaving the question of whether they are good or bad totally up to you.