PACK OF LIES, the Columbia Theater Departments first production of the 2007/08 season, runs through November 4 at the New Studo Theater, 72 E. 11th Street. Visit the Theater Department's website for details.
You know your next-door neighbors. They've been your best friends. Or do you? And are they? Set in a London suburb and based on the notorious spy scandal of the 1960's, Pack of Lies is set at the height of the cold war. Into the lives of an ordinary family comes an agent of M15, the British secret service. And with that intrusion the fabric of the family unravels. As trust erodes, this play questions the responsibility of both government and citizen to society at large and to each other. With haunting prescience, playwright Hugh Whitemore raises an issue which loudly resonates with us today in 2007, "Who will watch the watchers?" by Hugh Whitemore; Directed by faculty member Caroline Latta