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Actors in The Lifespan of a Truth rehearse the manufacturing.
San Antonio theater group 100A Productions will launch its 2024-25 season this Wednesday with The Lifespan of a Truth, a comedic commentary on the state of contemporary media and the affect of generational divides within the office.
Based mostly on the 2012 e book of the identical identify, The Lifespan of a Truth facilities round a multi-year feud between seasoned author John D’Agata (Andy Thornton) and fledgling fact-checker Jim Fingal (Michael Roberts).
When John crafts a shifting essay a few teenage boy’s suicide, he believes it’s simply the piece to rescue a declining New York journal from collapse — that’s, till the essay is returned ravaged by Jim’s purple pen. Copious factual errors are identified in each paragraph, and the journal terminates John’s publishing contract.
Hailed for its wise-cracking dialogue, The Lifespan of a Truth grapples with ever-relevant journalistic points, such because the ethics of editorializing and the subjectivity of reality, alongside extra common themes like the necessity for empathy in an more and more polarized world.
On account of mature themes and occasional robust language, this manufacturing is really helpful for grownup audiences. $26.25-$35, 8 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 8 p.m. and a couple of p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 4-15, Tobin Heart for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624, tobincenter.org.Subscribe to SA Present newsletters.
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