Passage Theatre Company is set to begin its 2013-2014 season with True Story by EM Lewis.
Lewis’ thriller is about a mystery writer who challenges the audiences perceptions of the truth when he interviews an acquitted murderer.
Hal Walker is hired to ghostwrite the “story of the century:” the autobiography of acquitted murderer Donnie Lawrence. But, when Hal goes to Donnie’s house to begin interviews, he finds himself under scrutiny and the story spinning out of control.
Playwright EM Lewis is no stranger to Passage Theatre, having joined the Passage Play Lab when she was the 2010-2011 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. She received a 2012 Fellowship in Playwriting from the New Jersey State Council for the Arts and both the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for Song of Extinction and the Primus Prize for Heads from the American Theater Critics Association.
True Story was initially developed during the Passage Play Lab retreat in 2011 and has subsequently been developed at the Arkansas New Play Festival and PlayFest Santa Barbara.
Damon Bonetti is directing the production. Bonetti, who was last seen on stage in Passage’s production of Blood: A Comedy, is making his Passage directorial debut.
True Story also features Barrymore Award winning actor Dan Hodge in the role of Hal Walker. Also featured in the cast are Judith Lightfoot Clarke, Joe Guzmán, John Jezior and recent Rider University graduate Alex Boyle.
Performances are scheduled for Nov. 7 – 24 ; Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m.
Tickets are $30 ($35 on Saturdays). Passage Theatre performs in the historic Mill Hill Playhouse, 205 East Front St., Trenton.
More information is online at passagetheatre.org.
