“…a tense and riveting eighty minutes...Sly and smartly crafted.”
“Though E.M. Lewis’s 80-minute thriller...pays homage to Raymond Chandler’s detective-story and film-noir tradition of the 1930s and ‘40s, the play offers a more current (cell-phone era) exploration of the genre, combining the twists and turns of a gripping murder mystery with the profound human issues of coping with loss, assuming responsibility, the nature of truth, and the desire for justice. Passage Theatre Company’s world-premiere production, directed with wit and suspense by Damon Bonetti, succeeds in delivering all the surprises, humor, emotion, and psychology inherent in the script.”
True Story
Written by E.M. Lewis
When grieving mystery writer Hal Walker is hired to ghostwrite the “story of the century,” he must find out what really happened between acquitted murderer Donnie Lawrence and his wife. But will he survive his own investigation?
True Story had its World Premiere at the Passage Theater in Trenton, New Jersey, in Fall 2013. It was nominated for five Barrymore Awards, including “Best New Play.”
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