THE MERCY SEAT at St. Louis Actors’ Studio: A Taut Post-9/11 Drama

The Mercy Seat is a voyeuristic look at less-than-stellar people who contemplate taking advantage of a dire situation for their own selfish motives. Director John Pierson tells a compelling but uncomfortable story of self-centered opportunism. Actors Franklin Killian and Kelly Schneider inhabit flawed, morally compromised characters whose train wreck decisions are so unfathomable that you just cannot look away.

_Originally reported by [BroadwayWorld](https://www.broadwayworld.com/st-louis/article/Review-THE-MERCY-SEAT-at-St-Louis-Actors-Studio-is-a-Taut-Post-911-Drama-Steeped-in-Intimate-Realism-20260914)._