Truth Dare Double Dare Kiss Love or Torture written by Tori Keenan-Zelt, directed by Ilana Becker

About This Show

At 13, Ursa, Hannah, Linney, and Maeve live in their own world built of basements, secrets, loves, and backyard ghosts — until the last sleepover of the summer. High school looms with the promise and threat of reinvention, and the group fractures as shifting beliefs and identities collide in a traumatic accident that none of them can explain.  Truth Dare… flows between 1998 and 2002 as, four years later, questions and accusations fly as the survivors revisit the scene of the “crime” and try to understand what happened, what they have lost, and how to live now.

About the Artists

Tori Keenan-Zelt’s recent work includes Catfight (Yale Cab), Truth Dare… (Best Ensemble, Pittsburgh Fringe), Everything You Were Looking For (NYMadness), Beautiful Tomorrow (5D), Burning Lines (Cold Basement),Times Square Tango (Drama Book Shop), I Didn’t Know I Was the Antichrist (#serials@theflea), The Egypt Play (Dev: Lark, WTF, Somersault, Sanctuary, Actors Studio), and others. Member of Bastard Playground, Part-Time Box, Propulsion Lab, Ingram New Works Lab (Nash Rep), the Actors Studio Playwright/Directors Unit, & the Dramatists Guild. Recent Playwrights’ Center Core Apprentice and Lark Dramaturgy Fellow. She writes for Colonial Williamsburg’s Emmy Award-winning series and is developing a webseries with Stage17TV. BA, Harvard. MFA, NYU Tisch. www.tk-z.net

 

Ilana Becker has developed new work at Dixon Place, Pittsburgh Fringe (Best Ensemble), Lark, Flea, 54 Below, O’Neill Theater Center, Disney/ASCAP Workshop, Samuel French Festival, FringeNYC, Hunter College, Columbia and NYU’s MFA programs, among others. She is developing Argument Sessions, an ongoing series of immersive events from SCOTUS transcripts. Projects as producer and director include a site-specific Waiting for Lefty; Beer Plays, an evening of craft beers paired with short plays; and Around the Block, a collection of investigative pieces about and performed in NYC neighborhoods. Ilana works at Lincoln Center Education, is a member of The Civilians’ R&D Group, Bastard Playground, LCT Directors Lab, DirectorsLabChicago, and was the Playwrights Horizons Robert Moss Directing Resident. www.ilanabecker.com

Friday, Feb. 27 at 10pm

General Admission
$12 in advance
$15 at the door

Students/Seniors
$10

Estimated Runtime
90 minutes

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Credits

written by
Tori Keenan-Zelt,

directed by
Ilana Becker

featuring:
Sophie Hassett 
Rachel Sachnoff
Kristie Wortman
Julie Ann Earls

Lighting Design
Shelly Rodriguez

Sound Design
John Emmett O’Brien

 

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