SHOCKED
A new musical
SHOCKED follows social psychologist Stanley Milgram in postwar America as the Eichmann trial inspires him to investigate obedience to authority. His experiments ask ordinary people to deliver what they believe are increasingly dangerous electric shocks to a stranger.
The results are devastating: 65 percent continue to the highest level simply because an authority figure tells them to. As controversy threatens Milgram’s career and peace of mind, the musical explores how people—and entire societies—can be led astray.