A LIE OF THE MIND
by Sam Shepard
directed by Liz Carlin-Metz
When: Feb 23–26, 2011 @ 7:30
Where: Harbach Theatre
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ALie of the Mind depicts two families shaken by the tectonic violence lurking beneath the glittering waters of the collective national myths depicting the American Dream, The Family, and The Individual. With aching loss and nostalgia for an America more real in memory than the flesh and now destroyed by the trickle down economics of pragmatism, money, and power, Americans need and yearn for one another, but fail one another with such great regularity that only possession, mistrust, betrayal, and competition are the real economics between us. All we have, Shepard has said, is "ideas that don't speak to our inner self at all..."
Read the following articles about our production:
Knox Theatre Explores Family, Social Conflict
"A Lie of the Mind": tainted love