In the spring of 1920, a Harvard undergraduate’s suicide unearthed a hidden homosexual subculture among the student population of the university. Grief-stricken and demanding justice, his family brought two incriminating letters to the attention of Harvard’s legendary president, Lawrence Lowell, who hastily assembled a team of deans to expurgate these sexual deviants before they infected other students on campus. Inspired by these events, VERITAS is the tragic story of the bright-futured boys whose lives fell prey to a family’s desire for revenge and an august institution’s reckless pursuit of the Truth. [Learn more]
Learn about the production history of Stan Richardson's VERITAS since it was written and first performed in 2007. [Learn more]
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