Veritas
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SHOW INFORMATION
CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Aug 20, 2010
Closed Aug 28, 2010
Opened Aug 20, 2010
Closed Aug 28, 2010
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Running Time:
1hr. 40min.
1hr. 40min.
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http://www.veritastheplay.com/
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FESTIVAL INFORMATION:
This show is part of the FringeNYC 2010 Festival.
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Inspired by true events, Veritas is the story of a group of young men at Harvard in 1920 whose promising futures fell prey to Harvard's "Secret Court": a gay witch-hunt conducted by school administration to purge Harvard of all homosexuality.
Schedule:
Fri 20 @ 7 Sun 22 @ 8 Tue 24 @ 4:15 Thu 26 @ 3:30 Fri 27 @ 5:15 Sat 28 @ 8
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
What are other members saying?
RE:An aim and a miss
This slice of gay history has an intriguing tale to tell, and despite fine performances from a large, admirable cast, the scattershot writing and ineffective attempts at creative narration undermine what should have been a more powerful piece of theater.
Reviewed by kbraidi
on Monday, Aug 30th, 2010
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[Editor's Note: This is the fifth in a series of roundups on the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival.]
There's no denying that Stan Richardson's Veritas, at HERE Arts Center, has impact. The premise alone makes an audience sit up and take notice. The dramatist bases his charged but flawed work on the very real (though only brought-to-light in 2002) story of a hunt for homosexuals carried out in 1920 at Harvard, where the university motto is "Veritas" -- "truth."
After undergraduate Cyril Wilcox takes his own life, his brother Lester (Doug Kreeger) discovers two letters from classmates with clear references to the homosexual activities in which Cyril's circle of friends engaged.[...]