Two women sit at a table, engaged in a serious conversation. One woman appears distraught, while the other gestures emphatically. The Lying Lesson.

The Lying Lesson

Written by CRAIG LUCAS
Directed by PAM MACKINNON

Linda Gross Theater
February 20 – March 31, 2013

In this hilarious and unsettling comic thriller, Craig Lucas, celebrated author of Prelude to a KissReckless and The Light in the Piazza and Tony-nominated director Pam MacKinnon (Who’s Afraid of Virginia WoolfClybourne Park) twist and turn the audience around essential questions about memory, identity, and truth-telling.

In a remote seaside village in Maine, a woman who may or may not be legendary movie star Bette Davis shows up to buy the home of an elderly couple. When she encounters a young local woman who appears never to have heard of her, “Ruth” stakes her claim on her distant past and plays a relentless game of cat and mouse with her new “assistant.”
Starring Oscar-nominated and Emmy award-winning actor Carol Kane and exciting Off-Broadway newcomer Mickey Sumner.

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