MENDACITY

Written by Sara Farrington
Directed by Reid Farrington
Produced by Foxy Films

Lindsey Graham is Maggie, America is Brick, Trump is Big Daddy, Jared is Big Mama, AOC is SisterWoman in this hyper-transformed riff on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

With a violent mob outside, Maggie makes a final attempt to seduce Brick, as does the dying Big Daddy, the bootlicker Big Mama and the maniacally millennial SisterWoman. When Brick realizes he’s being lied to, has always been lied to, by “lying sons of lying bitches,” he nearly destroys himself before finding a way out.

Filmed on location at The Connelly Theater in NYC’s East Village, Mendacity compresses the 2020 election, Capitol insurrection and transition of power into a fierce American political parable.

Mendacity was an official selection of the NYC Indie Theatre Film Festival, February 2023. Foxy Films is the recipient of a grant from The New Jersey State Council on the Arts for this piece.

MENDACITY
A Transformation of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
written by SARA FARRINGTON
directed by REID FARRINGTON
produced by SARA FARRINGTON, REID FARRINGTON and FOXY FILMS
Featuring:
RAFAEL JORDAN as The United States of America as Brick
ADAM PATTERSON as Senator Lindsey Graham as Maggie The Cat
JENNIFER MCCLINTON as A.O.C. as Sister-Woman
LAURA K NICOLL as Jared Kushner as Big Mama
KEVIN R FREE as Tr*mp as Big Daddy

ARTISTIC TEAM:
costumes SARA FARRINGTON
hair and makeup JENNIFER MCCLINTON
production design REID FARRINGTON
grips BILL KENNEDY, JEHAD ABU-HAMDA, DANIEL SMITH, JANET CLANCY
lighting design LAURA MROCZKOWSKI
lighting asst EVAN HAWKINS
sound asst BENJAMIN MANNO
script supervisor ERIN SCOIGLETTI
production assts JACK FARRINGTON & LEVI FARRINGTON
camera asst HAITAO ZENG
director of photography JOHN HURLEY
music by MIKE CASSEDY
“Ain’t No Grave” accompanied by BRIAN BOND
edited by REID FARRINGTON
additional editing CONNOR KALISTA
opening sequence edited by LEONHARD LIERZER
assistant directed by LAURA K NICOLL
screenplay by SARA FARRINGTON
directed by REID FARRINGTON