The Deposition

THE DEPOSITION is a two-hander told entirely in testimony. Sandra and Phillip, married forty-something years, sit in separate rooms giving separate accounts of a near-miss on a dark road: a car that drifted into their lane, a stop on the shoulder, a stranger they left behind. Sandra’s version is composed, precise, and certain. Phillip’s is honest about what he can no longer be certain of. As the two testimonies intercut, the play becomes less about what happened on the road and more about what it costs two people to remember the same night differently, and what happens when one of them finally stops maintaining her composure and admits she is sorry too. THE DEPOSITION is a quiet study of reasonable versus right, and of the small, unrehearsed moment when the truth finally gets said out loud.