The Representatives in association with Olmstead Salon present

VERITAS

The Cave at St. George’s in Gramercy Park
209 East 16th Street
NY NY

21 October-7 November 2015

Playwright/Co-Director/Producer: Stan Richardson
Co-Director/Producer: Matt Steiner
Directed by: Meg Stemmler

Featuring: John Garrett Greer, Chris Harral, Daniel K. Isaac, John McGinty, DeLance Minefee, Luis Moreno, Marquis Rodriguez, Brendan Spieth, Matt Steiner, Amir Wachterman

Gay rights have come a long long way since the extremely closeted 1950’s, but if you really want to go back to the dark ages, try 1920. At Harvard University, male white privilege was the norm: arrogant rich kids who thought because they went to Harvard, the world was their oyster. One wouldn’t mind seeing them taken down a peg or two, but what happened to these ten young men was literally devastating.

Only recently discovered buried in an archive was documentation of a witch hunt of homosexuals at Harvard. The university not only threw them out, but ruined their lives because of their “unnatural practices.”

VERITAS is the dramatization of those events in a site-specific production that is moving and poignant. The stellar cast infuses each character with a rich and full personality. Especially stunning are John Garrett Greer, and Matt Steiner as a couple in love but so tormented by their self hatred that they never truly connect, and Luis Moreno as the not-so-much older teacher who lets his comfort in the rarified atmosphere that he lets his ambitions fallow.

The setting is perfect, steeped in history and atmosphere.

One can’t help but wonder how different their lives would have been if only they had been born at the turn of the next century.

- Jean Tait -