Steppenwolf's FAKE Tickets Go On Sale Today 8/6

Fake, written and directed by ensemble member Eric Simonson
Featuring ensemble members Kate Arrington, Francis Guinan and Alan Wilder.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company launches its 2009-2010 season, exploring the theme of belief, with the world premiere of Fake.

In the Downstairs Theatre
Thu. September 10, 2009 - Sun. November 8, 2009

In 1914, renowned mystery writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle invites four guests to his English country home. Each visitor has a connection to the infamous "Piltdown Man," purported to be the missing link between ape and man-later exposed as a hoax. Swinging back and forth through time, Fake investigates how "Piltdown" rattled assumptions about evolution, faith and science-and how we are transformed by our quest for the truth.

Ensemble member Eric Simonson recently completed a documentary on the late Studs Terkel for HBO. Simonson received a Tony® nomination for his direction of Steppenwolf's The Song of Jacob Zulu with Ladysmith Black Mambazo and directed an Oscar®-nominated documentary about the acclaimed South African singing group. Simonson received an Oscar® for Best Documentary Short for his film A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin in 2006. Other directing credits at Steppenwolf include Carter's Way (also playwright), Slaughterhouse-Five (also adaptor) and Nomathemba (Hope).

Fake is part of the 2009-2010 Subscription Season, which includes American Buffalo, The Brother/Sister Plays, Endgame and A Parallelogram.

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