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THE PLAY
THINGS I KNOW TO BE TRUE is a moving and visceral piece of contemporary theatre. Bob and Fran Price have four adult children with struggles and secrets they try hide from their parents. But Fran has a knack for knowing what is true in each of their lives. As the children separately try to redefine themselves, what is real and genuine in the Price family falls apart and Bob and Fran must redefine their relationships with their children and with each other. Funny, poignant, and heartbreaking, Bovell’s work examines the dynamics of a family and how they understand truth in the face of tragedy. The presentation of the story incorporates physical theater techniques, dance and music.
THE DIRECTOR
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SHIRLEY JO FINNEY is an award-winning international director of theatre, television, and film, as well as an accomplished actress. She has directed in some of the most respected regional theater Houses, including The McCarter Theatre, The Pasadena Playhouse, The Goodman Theater, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the Cleveland Playhouse, the Fountain Theater, LA Theater Works, the Crossroads Theater Company, Actors Theater of Louisville Humana Festival, the Sundance Theater Workshop, The Mark Taper Forum Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the State Theater in Pretoria, South Africa.
THE PLAYWRIGHT
ANDREW BOVELL is one of Australia’s premiere playwrights with an extensive catalogue of work including After Dinner (1988), Scenes from a Separation (1995), Speaking in Tongues (1996), Who’s Afraid of the Working Class? (1998), Ship of Fools (1999), Holy Day (2001), When the Rain Stops Falling (2008), The Secret River (2013) and Things I Know to Be True (2016). He is also an award-winning screenwriter, credited with A Most Wanted Man (2014) starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Lantana, Blessed, and Edge of Darkness with Mel Gibson.
THE PREMIERE
THINGS I KNOW TO BE TRUE by Andrew Bovell had its world premiere in 2016 as a joint production of State Theatre Company South Australia and the UK’s Frantic Assembly, directed by Geordie Brookman and Scott Graham, featuring the music of Nils Frahm. The play toured the United Kingdom twice and had its American premiere in 2019 in a co-production with the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre and the Arizona Theatre Company under the direction of Mark Clements. For the American production, Bovell adapted the action of the drama to take place in the United States.
