Oswald: the Actual Interrogation at Theatre 40

Theatre 40 will be producing a special two-night 60th Anniversary Commemorative staged reading of Oswald – the Actual Interrogation by Dennis Richard on October 25th and 26th. The play will be directed by Louis Fantasia, who is currently the Artistic Associate of the Los Angeles Shakespeare Center and Director of the Shakespeare Institute.

Based on the bristling and explosive actual interrogation of Lee Harvey Oswald by Dallas Chief of Homicide, Captain William J. Fritz, the play brings one of the most engrossing battles ever brought to the stage, as a defiant 24 year-old, tight-lipped young man goes up against the best homicide detective the Dallas Police Department had to offer. There were no stenographic notes, video or audio tapes of the interrogation, just handwritten notes that Captain Fritz later presented to the Warren Commission.  Forty-eight hours and seven minutes after the President of the United States was shot and killed; there was another shot in Dallas. That shot was for Lee Harvey Oswald. 

The events of November 22-24, 1963 have evoked countless conspiracy theories and hundreds of books and television programs. This play reconstructs Oswald’s behind-the-scenes interrogation, based on documents and first-hand accounts, creating riveting drama and revealing important details of the most controversial investigation of our time.