The Truth Will Out

The Truth Will Out was a reading of Jordan Seavey's play by the same name. The reading was arranged by Oslo International Theatre in 2011.

Information

(Objekt ID 17839)
Object type Production
Premiere October 13, 2011
Produced by Oslo International Theatre
Based on The Truth Will Out by Jordan Seavey
Audience Adults
Number of events 1
Language Norwegian
Keywords Documentary, Reading, Theatre
Running period October 13, 2011  —  October 13, 2011
Website Oslo Internasjonale Teater

Requirements to venue

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On the webpage of Dramatikkens hus the following is written about The Truth Will Out:

"A grand epic dream of media and personal responsibility based on the shooting drama at E. O. Green School in America in 2008.

Jason Malone is 15 years old and gay. He has stolen a gun and locked himself into the office of the school's headmaster. When he calls a live news show and threatens to kill himself it is the scoop of a lifetime for news anchor Whittemore Walter. But when Jason says that the only thing that may stop him from committing suicide is that Walter himself comes out of the closet, Walter is facing the most difficult choice of his life."

After the reading the company arranged an onstage conversation with playwright Jordan Seavey on his involvement in society and politics, the way it is expressed through his writing. Seavey has worked actively for gay rights, also when a close friend of his last year was brutally beaten in a New York street for being gay.

The play is translated into Norwegian as Sannheten skal frem by Michael H. Sciarrone and Øystein Ulsberg Brager.

Source:

Dramatikkens hus, dramatikkenshus.no, 22.09.2011, http://www.dramatikkenshus.no/pub/dramatikkenshus/Innhold/Kalender/?aid=1647&cid=768#dramatikkenshus

Contributors (14)
Name Role
Jordan Seavey – Playwright
Øystein Ulsberg Brager – Translation
Michael Hallbäck Sciarrone – Translation
Øystein Ulsberg Brager – Direction
Philip Thorne – Direction
Mia Halseth – Actor
Huy Le Vo – Actor
Ida Løken Valkeapää – Actor
Christoffer Hag Maure – Actor
Sveinung Oppegaard – Actor
Katharina Gellein Viken – Actor
Torgny G. Aanderaa – Actor
Michael Hallbäck Sciarrone – Stage manager
Espen Hjort – Director’s assistant
Performance dates
October 13, 2011 19:00 – Hallen, Norwegian Centre for New Playwriting (NCNP) Opening night