DramaCharacters: 4 males, 1 femalesWinner 2010 M. Elizabeth Osborn
New Play Award for an Emerging Playwright Walter Kreutzer, a
microbiologist for a defense contractor, is being investigated by
his employers over an incriminating memo that was leaked to the
media. Walter thinks his Moroccan wife may have done the
whistle-blowing, and to protect her - and himself - Walter needs to
learn how to beat a lie detector, and fast. D'avore Peoples, a
polygraph consultant, is happy to help - for a price, of course.
But D'avore's technique will require Walter to look deep within
himself, a terrifying prospect for a man hiding from his past.With
his best friend spying on him, his wife intent on opening old
wounds, and D'avore uncovering dark secrets, Walter's desperate
journey toward the perfect lie becomes a spiral into paranoia and
bitter reckoning. "The play wears its politics lightly...letting
slip bits of information that we then can combine into
sense...Funny, at moments, hilarious, with much of the humor coming
from characters who are always more human than symbolic... I want
to recommend Mendacity not just as a couple of entertaining hours
of theater, which it certainly is, but as a rare attempt to witness
real political art, the sort that seldom turns up on the American
scene." -Mark E. Leib, Creative Loafing"A sharp meditation on the
nature of truth and lies in the post 9-11 world... Jason Wells
conjures the same sort of nerve-jangling menace found in his
earlier play Men Of Tortuga. But here he spins a story that bears a
downright eerie prescience...Wells' play is wired with a dazzling,
tightly wound, steel-spring mechanism that keeps you riveted."
-Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun Times..".This look at intrigue, duplicity
and self-deception in the corporate world resonates in every aspect
of human endeavor." -American Theatre Critics Association "One
would think a drama about a government defense contractor's secret
cover-ups and the people woven within them would be heavy and
intense, but playwright Jason Wells surprises with witty comedy in
the most unlikely moments while keeping the intensity
alive...Wells' dialogue, coupled with the story's imagination,
flows nicely. It is enjoyable to watch each scene build to a
climax, then soften somewhat, leaving the audience intrigued,
laughing or, in the end, completely stunned." -Bradenton
Herald"Intriguing and exciting " -Sarasota Magazine
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