Luce
Opening Night: October 21, 2013
Closing: November 17, 2013
Theater: Claire Tow Theater
When a teacher makes an alarming discovery about Luce, an all-star high school student, his parents are forced to reckon with their idealized image of their son, adopted years ago from a war-torn African country.
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October 21, 2013
Star student, sociopath or a little of each? That is the troublesome question raised in “Luce,” a thoughtful, well-acted new play by J C Lee that opened on Monday night at Lincoln Center’s Claire Tow Theater. The title character, winningly played by Okieriete Onaodowan, is a 17-year-old charter school student in an unnamed American suburb whose teacher, Harriet (Sharon Washington), becomes alarmed at the choice Luce makes when he’s given an assignment to write about a historical figure.
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