The Knotted Truth

About Off Stage Left

Every month, Stage Left Theatre hosts online play readings of new, though-provoking plays that allow actors, directors, and playwrights to advance their artistic visions while interacting with the perceptions of engaged audience members. As a play in it’s early stages of development, The Knotted Truth was selected to receive a staged reading and talkback to further the work.

About The Knotted Truth

What becomes of our world 75 years from now? Peter Ruiz’s explores what can happen when supremacy rules in The Knotted Truth, a dystopian sci-fi that challenges the roles we must play in society.

For the teenagers in Unit 652, great anticipation swells for their participation in The Forked Path, where every 16 year old much decide whether to stay on Earth or be banished to a Satellite planet. In the week leading up to her 16th birthday, Sarah learns things about her world that put everything she’s ever known into question.

As Sarah continues to unravel the truths of present and past, she questions what’s reality for her, her family, and for the people on Earth. Along the way, an old friend comes back into her life, bonds are tested and a decision must be made. Is everything as it seems?

About The Process

I had the pleasure of reading this play months before I was approached to direct it. What excited me already was the world Ruiz created to examine race and lineage. It was a play I was thinking about constantly so I was thrilled when Ruiz asked if I’d direct the staged reading for it. We took the couple months leading up to rehearsals to meet and discuss where Ruiz wanted to go with the play and what we could already start adding for the reading. I find this to be one of the most exciting stages of the playwright’s process. The director is able to put a stamp on the passport of the play’s journey. I look forward to this play’s travels.