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The Soap Myth questions who deserves the right to write history. On Friday, the 21st at 9 pm

THE SOAP MYTH dramatizes the powerful confrontation between survivor memory and historical memory in depicting the insidiousness of a sophisticated Holocaust denial. More than a half century after World War II, at the desperate urging of a passionate survivor, a young investigative reporter finds herself caught between numerous versions of the same story and trying to separate fact from fiction. Did the Nazis make soap from the corpses of their murdered Jewish victims? Played out against the backdrop of deadline reporting and journalistic integrity, Jeff Cohen's critically acclaimed play The Soap Myth uses this horrific possibility as its catalyst. It questions who deserves the right to write history — those who have lived it and remember, those studying and protecting it, or those seeking to distort its very existence? And finally, what responsibility should others take once they know the truth? First presented in 2009, a rewritten version of the play premiered Off-Broadway in March 2013. This filmed production, directed by Arnold Mittelman, stars Greg Mullavey (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, iCarly), Andi Potamkin, Dee Pelletier (August, Osage County) and Donald Corren (Souvenir).