Theatre Production: A Lie of the Mind

Communications and Fine Arts Dept. presents
A JSCC Theatre Production

Sam Shepard's
A LIE OF THE MIND
Featuring the Dirt Pilgrims

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Involves two desperate families connected by the marriage of the son of one (Jake) to the daughter of the other (Beth). As the play begins Beth, brain-damaged from a savage beating that Jake has given her, is being tended by her mother, Beth. Frankie, Jake's brother, goes to Montana to see if she is dead or alive, but Beth's father, mistaking Frankie for a deer, shoots him in the leg and takes him home. Thereafter the tensions and enmities that motivate the two families grow increasingly disturbing and dangerous. Beth falls in love with Frankie, but her brother, Mike, is bitterly determined that she no longer have anything to do with her husband or his loathsome family. Meanwhile the distraught, hysterical Jake, back home in California, is nursed by his possessive mother, Lorraine, and his sister, Sally, to whom Lorraine is openly hostile. Having gotten Jake back from Beth, Lorraine is determined to keep him with her forever, but Jake soon recovers and sets out to regain his wife. Alternating the action between platforms on either side of the stage where Beth's and Jake's families live, Sam Shepard exposes the secrets of sordid pasts of insanity, alcoholism, alienation and the American dream.