Third is a provocative comedy that deals with a tenured female professor, Laurie Jameson, at a New England college facing the "next act" of her life and the dialogue is both lively, and engaging, forcing the audience to consider their own decisions and place in the world.

Mary Lynn Owen returns to the Horizon Theatre in the guise of Jameson, a liberal-minded feminist who balks when Woodson Bull III nicknamed Third, convincing played by Will Bradley, offers a non-traditional reading of the work of Shakespeare, leading the feisty academician to accuse her student of plagiarism. 

But it's not his academic work that is called into question as much as it is Jameson's inability to deal with a world that has changed in dramatic proportion while she remains locked in a world where life was more simple and easy to handle.

In short, it is a play that looks at how we judge and pre-judge others, often allowing our assumptions to become our own version of reality.

But Third refuses to go down without a fight and as the work progresses he shows that he is much more than the simple "privileged, preppie, frat boy" that Jameson thought.

Along the journey, both Jameson and Third, who has become the scapegoat for his professor's anger and frustrations, illustrate the damage that can ruin our lives when we allow our biases and quick judgments to guide us.

And as Jameson, who is dealing with a suddenly empty nest, a father struggling with Alzheimer's, her best friend's fight to overcome breast cancer, and a husband and daughters who have become strangers before her eyes discovers, sometimes the monuments that we have erected in our lives to protect us can ultimately become the source of our own confinement.