The Representatives Open Site-Specific Re-Imagining of VERITAS at The Cave Tonight
The Representatives in association with The Olmsted Salon present a site-specific re-imagining of VERITAS by Stan Richardson, opening tonight, October 26. The theatre for the production is The Cave @ St. George's in Gramercy Park, 209 East 16th Street, NYC 10003. The play is co-directed by Matt Steiner & Stan Richardson (The Representatives). VERITAS is based on the tragic true story of a secret gay witch-hunt at Harvard in 1920, that was completely unknown. A student journalist unearthed a box of handwritten transcripts in the bowels of the Harvard library over 80 years later.
The talented, multi-racial cast is John Garrett Greer (Nathaniel Wollf), Chris Harral (Kenneth Day), Daniel Isaac (Edward Say), John McGinty (Eugene Cummings), DeLance Minefee (George Wilcox), Luis Moreno (Harold Saxton), Marquis Rodriguez (Joseph Lumbard), Brendan Spieth (Stanley Gilkey), Matt Steiner (Keith Smerage), and Amir Wachterman (Ernest Roberts).
The Creative and the Production team includes Meg Stemmler - Creative Designer, Lindsay Maiorana - Event Producer, Paul Hudson - Lighting Designer, Ashley Walch - Costume Designer, Jordan Schildcrout - Dramaturg, Liz Richards - Production Stage Manager, Gwyn Osnos - General Manager, and Nicole Ofeno - Marketing Director. "VERITAS" is an evening of theatre that is fast, intimate and exciting, The Representatives has a strong following for their presentations, which have a party following the show.
Written in 2007, VERITAS received workshops at Columbia University and Classic Stage Company and was first produced at the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival where it became the first show in Fringe history to sell out its entire run before the festival began. VERITAS won the Fringe Excellence Award, a 2010 citation from Talkin' Broadway for "Outstanding New Play" and was featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and the Harvard Crimson, among other publications.
The playwright stated "This site-specific re-imagining of my play VERITAS, is the Representatives' most ambitious project yet. Many things excite us about this, our first "public" production: the diverse cast of excellent actors playing the ten Harvard students; the intimate environmental staging; the fun and informative after parties. But on a larger scale, we're hoping that this production will encourage Harvard to properly acknowledge their terrible error in judgment by giving honorary degrees to the young men whose lives the university destroyed almost a century ago."
The Representatives is the collaboration between playwright Stan Richardson and actor Matt Steiner. Since 2012, they presented 13 new works, ranging from their signature apartment plays to larger pieces: a film-theater hybrid; a site-specific adaptation of a Russian epic; and a residency at IRT Theater to work on a project with deaf artists. The Representatives' dedication to presenting work as soon as it's written--in people's homes and other unconventional spaces--has created an underground following committed to socially-relevant theatrical experiences. In short, they make plays that come from their personal and political dreams and nightmares and they do it fast. TDF dubbed The Representatives as "an underground theatre sensation" and they were also recognized as one of the "Top 10 Theater Experiences" by BroadwayWorld.com for their hyper-intimate, invitation-only productions performed in apartments, churches, restaurants and other alternative venues.
Performances for the limited engagement are Monday - Saturday at 8:00pm, with a party following the show. Tickets are only $18 (plus service charge) and are available at therepresentatives.org/veritas.
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