The Maddening Truth
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 30, 2008
Closed Feb 23, 2008
Opened Jan 30, 2008
Closed Feb 23, 2008
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Ernest Hemingway complained bitterly that his third wife, Martha Gellhorn, knew "everything about humanity but nothing about human beings". The question is posed again in this story of Gellhorn's desperate attempt, in her mid-60's, to fulfill her lifelong ambition: to write a luminous novel. Famous for her eyewitness accounts of the Spanish Civil war, the devastation at Dachau, and the American bombing of Vietnam, the forgotten, still glamorous journalist has returned to London from exile in Kenya. Goaded on by a smart, younger generation of writers to make good on her promise, she sets out on a painful, errant path that contradicts Hemingway's assertion and yields an utterly surprising result.
CNN's Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour joins producers Neal Weisman and Keen Company to host a special benefit performance on Thursday, January 17.
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The most maddening thing about The Maddening Truth, now being given its world premiere by the Keen Company at the Clurman, is not whatever truth neophyte playwright David Hay and experienced director Carl Forsman are trying to impart about their subject, the writer Martha Gellhorn, but how badly they have served their subject, despite their obvious sincerity. Marred by sloppy writing, questionable fact-checking, and the surprisingly incongruous casting of the great if way-too-young Lisa Emery, this one-hour-and-40 minute drama ultimately does neither Gellhorn nor the audience any favors.
While she is to most people a complete unknown or little more than a historical footnote, Gellhorn is a [...]