TRUTH

FULL-LENGTH: In the back room of a presidential campaign, where Republican staffers drink stale coffee and sling barbed emails, a storm is brewing. It concerns security. It concerns privacy. It concerns racism. It concerns sex. It concerns a loss of innocence, a lack of ethics, and the threat of violence. But most importantly, it concerns ‘Truth’, a word that has been abused, scandalized, misrepresented,...
FULL-LENGTH: In the back room of a presidential campaign, where Republican staffers drink stale coffee and sling barbed emails, a storm is brewing. It concerns security. It concerns privacy. It concerns racism. It concerns sex. It concerns a loss of innocence, a lack of ethics, and the threat of violence. But most importantly, it concerns ‘Truth’, a word that has been abused, scandalized, misrepresented, and torn apart in recent years. As four campaigners work to cover up a scandal deep into the night, decisions will be made that change the lives of them all. And as they work, the meaning of the word ‘Truth’ will take on forms that they never thought imaginable.
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TRUTH

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  • John Minigan:
    19 Feb. 2018
    This is a powerful, clear, disturbing trip through multiple levels of truth and lies. Set in the campaign office of a Trump-like presidential candidate, the play quickly blows apart the difference between truth and the convenient lies we believe, and then goes deeper, looking at issues of race, conservatism, liberalism, media--and deconstructing the meaning of truth in each area it approaches. The play is relentless, totally compelling, and important for its unflinching look at how we seem to have decided that a lie is almost always better than the truth.

Development History

  • Reading
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    Playwrights' Platform
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    2017
  • Reading
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    Ya Bird? Productions
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    2017