This Is Fiction
Opening Night: June 15, 2012
Closing: June 30, 2012
Theater: Cherry Lane Theatre
This is Fiction centers on Amy, an aspiring young writer. Amy is on the verge of having her first novel published, but before she does, she has to break the news to her family that it’s not entirely fiction. When she shows up at her childhood home in New Jersey, it’s time to tell the truth.
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June 20, 2012
Writing what you know, as aspiring authors are often advised to do, almost inevitably requires hurting those you love. Theatergoers learned this from the acclaimed Broadway production of “Other Desert Cities,” and will have the lesson drilled into their heads again in “This Is Fiction,” a new play in which yet another literary daughter purges a family secret through publishing.
READ THE REVIEWJune 19, 2012
Right outside the Cherry Lane Theater, on the evening when I was seeing the modest four-character play "This Is Fiction," some half dozen cranes, two dozen extras and twice as many crew were transforming the street from summer into winter, adding bucket after bucket of fake snow for a scene in a movie remake of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," starring Ben Stiller. One need only witness such extravagance in the service of entertainment to realize how thoroughly fiction can crowd out reality. The interplay between the two is an intriguing subject, one that "This Is Fiction," by its title and through the company’s promotional material, promises to explore. But this first full-length play by Megan Hart barely gets to its supposed subject.
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