The Department of Dramatic Art’s Professional Actor Training Program with Playmakers Repertory Company Presents the Ground Floor Series!
The Lifespan of a Fact
by Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell and Gordon Farrell
Featuring PATP Residents: Reez Bailey ’26, Mengwe Wapimewah ’26, and Nate John Mark ’26
PERFORMANCES:
Saturday, April 20th @ 7:30PM [OPENING NIGHT]
Sunday, April 21st @ 5:30PM
Monday, April 22nd @ 5:30PM [CLOSING NIGHT]
LOCATION:
Studio 101
Joan H. Gillings Center for Dramatic Art
120 Country Club Rd
Chapel Hill, NC, 27514
Save the date. We hope to see you at the show! Feel free to invite friends and your contacts.
FREE Admissions!
SYNOPSIS:
Based on the book by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal.
THE STORY: Jim Fingal is a fresh-out-of-Harvard fact checker for a prominent but sinking New York magazine. John D’Agata is a talented writer with a transcendent essay about the suicide of a teenage boy—an essay that could save the magazine from collapse. When Jim is assigned to fact check D’Agata’s essay, the two come head to head in a comedic yet gripping battle over facts versus truth.
“…terrifically funny dialogue…once the writer and the fact-checker get into a lively debate on the ethics of factual truth vs. the beauty of literary dishonesty, it’s time to really sit up and listen…Their deadly serious but oh-so-funny ethical dispute is brilliantly argued…the debate at the heart of this play transcends comedy and demands serious attention.” —Variety.
About DDA Ground Floor Series
Studio Productions from the Professional Actor Training Program
At the heart of every theatrical production, regardless of scope, are the artists who posit questions about the human experience. The Department of Dramatic Art’s Professional Actor Training Program with Playmakers Repertory Company’s Ground Floor is an occasional series that engages our graduate acting company in material chosen (and sometimes written) specifically for them. These studio productions focus on the actors and the marrow of their process, and are led by insightful and resourceful directors from within the company or those visiting on fellowships.