The Knotted Truth

Online staged reading of Peter Ruiz’s play-in-development The Knotted Truth directed by Carina Lastimosa for Stage Left Theatre’s Off Stage Left monthly reading series in January 2023.

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?