Fake

In 1914, renowned mystery writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle invites four guests to his English country home. Each visitor has a connection to the infamous "Piltdown Man," purported to be the missing link between ape and man-later exposed as a hoax. Swinging back and forth through time, Fake investigates how "Piltdown" rattled assumptions about evolution, faith and science-and how we are transformed by our quest for the truth.
Ensemble member Eric Simonson recently completed a documentary on the late Studs Terkel for Hbo. Simonson received a Tony(c) nomination for his direction of Steppenwolf's The Song of Jacob Zulu with Ladysmith Black Mambazo and directed an Oscar(c)-nominated documentary about the acclaimed South African singing group. Simonson received an Oscar(c) for Best Documentary Short for his film A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin in 2006. Other directing credits at Steppenwolf include Carter's Way (also playwright), Slaughterhouse-Five (also adaptor) and Nomathemba (Hope).
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