Tru
by Jay Presson Allen, Truman Capote

Name: Tru
Brand: Jay Presson Allen
SKU: 9780573700347
Rating: 3.8 (9 reviews)

Highlights

Male

90 mins 1970s Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle) Interior Set Period Costumes

Awards & Recognition

Drama Desk Award

Winner! 1990 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show

Synopsis

Adapted from the words and works of Truman Capote, Tru takes place in the writer's New York City apartment during the week before Christmas 1975.

An excerpt from Capote's infamous novel Answered Prayers has recently been published in Esquire and the author's friends, recognizing the characters as thinly veiled versions of themselves, have turned their back on the man they once considered a close confidant.

Alone and hurting, Capote soothes himself with pills, alcohol, and chocolate truffles while musing about his checkered life and career.

Press Reviews

"We have glimpsed the interior man...The writing is wry, economical, skillfully indirect, acerbic and when called upon, judiciously vulgar."
— Los Angeles Times

"It is two hours spent on the edge, balancing precariously between comedy and tragedy, between laughter and tears, between the raucousness of exuberant performance and the quiet whimpers of inner torment...Any who remember Capote's look-at-me flamboyance...would have to wonder if he would continue to exist without an audience. That you are watching Capote face the prospect of such a life while you are a member of an audience just adds a touch of surreality...The only real problem is that, as must have been the case with most evenings spent in Capote's presence, it ends all too soon."
— The Baltimore Sun