A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard, directed by Brian Mertes In Trinity Rep's Dowling Theater is now playing through June 29, 2014. Two mid-western families are joined together by marriage and torn apart by a life-changing incident. Brimming with enormous vitality and humor the play asks us to look deeper into the human heart and the destructive power of love.
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Trinity Rep brings its 50th anniversary season to a close with Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind, directed by Brian Mertes in Trinity Rep's Dowling Theater now playing-June 29, 2014, considered by many to be a modern masterpiece of American familial dysfunction. Brimming with enormous vitality and humor the play asks us to look deeper into the human heart and the destructive power of love. Two mid-western families are joined together by marriage and torn apart by a life-changing incident. "Sam Shepard is surely the only dramatist alive who could tell a story as sad and frightening as this one and make such a funny play of it without ever skimping on its emotional depth," The New Yorker asserts. Tickets are on sale now at www.trinityrep.com, by calling (401) 351-4242, or at the theater's box office at 201 Washington St., Downtown Providence.
Photo Credit: Mark Turek
Brown/Trinity Rep MFA actor Britt Faulkner (’15) as Beth and Trinity Rep resident Acting Company member Charlie Thurston as Frankie
Brown/Trinity Rep MFA actors Britt Faulkner (’15) as Beth and Benjamin Grills (’14) as Jake
Trinity Rep resident Acting Company members Anne Scurria as Meg and Timothy Crowe as Baylor
Trinity Rep resident Acting Company member Rebecca Gibel as Sally and Brown/Trinity Rep MFA actor Benjamin Grills (’14) as Jake
Trinity Rep resident Acting Company member Janice Duclos as Lorraine and Brown/Trinity Rep MFA actor Benjamin Grills (’14)
Trinity Rep resident Acting Company members Anne Scurria as Meg and Timothy Crowe as Baylor
Musician Phillip Roebuck performs the original music
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