Sending your kid off to college can be emotionally draining under the best of circumstances. But when your child has a diagnosed mental health condition, the anxiety can be off the charts. That’s the situation faced by Lucy and Ted Harris, the parents at the center of Dana Hall’s new drama Refracted Light , now in a world premiere (directed by Natividad Salgado) with Eclectic Full Contact Theatre.

Daughter Penny (Jamie Lee) is 18 and about to head off to a prestigious undergraduate creative writing program. But she struggles with the belief that her meds for her bipolar disorder are limiting her creativity, as well as with her desire to break away from the overprotective instincts exhibited by Lucy (Jessica Lauren Fisher) in particular. Ted (Zach Kunde) tries to mediate, and Penny’s the

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