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鈥淭hird time鈥檚 the charm,鈥� says David Jarrott about his current and third attempt to stage the play The Lifespan of a Factfor a live, in-theater audience. 鈥淲e had this on our program for September of 2020. It got postponed for obvious reasons. We put it on our calendar for September of 2021, hoping that it might happen, and it didn鈥檛 happen. So now, here we go! And this is our first time back to a live, in person production鈥� in exactly two years from the day that we cancelled the rehearsals of the production we were working on in 2020, in March.鈥滱ll systems point to 鈥榞o鈥� for Jarrott and his cast and crew as they prepare for the March 10 premiere of their long-planned production of The Lifespan of a Fact. Jarrott says the small, three-person cast made Covid-era rehearsals a bit easier, but that鈥檚 not why this script was originally chosen. 鈥淲ell that just worked out to be a happy accident, because this was actually chosen before the word 鈥楥ovid鈥� was in our vocabulary,鈥� he says. 鈥淲e had been planning on doing this since 2019. I first saw the show in New York in December of 2018, and I had the good fortune of meeting one of the playwrights, Jeremy Kareken 鈥� we have a mutual friend 鈥� and we talked about it in New York back then. And after I saw the show, I thought, definitely I want to do the show. So it鈥檚 been on our drawing board for quite a while.鈥滼arrott's been working to get the play in front of a live Austin audience since falling in love with the script more than three years ago. 鈥淭he storyline is true,鈥� he says. 鈥淚t鈥檚 based on a true story. It鈥檚 based on an essay that the writer John D鈥橝gata wrote back in 2003, based on a real incident: a suicide that took place in 2002 in Las Vegas. And it wasn鈥檛 published, and it went through two different magazines before it was finally published in 2010. This play telescopes a lot of that, but it is based on the true story. The two characters 鈥� the two main male characters, John D鈥橝gata and Jim Fingal 鈥� are actual people. The publisher, Emily Penrose, is a composite and is a fictional character, but she represents the publishers that they worked with at the time.鈥淭here is a lot of conflict between the writer, John D鈥橝gata, and the factchecker, Jim Fingal,鈥� Jarrott continues. 鈥淚n real life鈥� this was like a seven-year back-and-forth between the two of them. John D鈥橝gata鈥檚 original essay was 20 pages long, and Jim Fingal鈥檚 factchecking document was over 100 pages long. Jim was having some problems with John鈥檚 bending of some of the facts [and] rearranging of some of the facts. And ultimately it comes down to that kind of a faceoff, and those parts of the play are very comedic.鈥漁ne of the things that drew Jarrott to the play was its timeliness. 鈥淚t was a wonderfully relevant play if 2016 had never happened,鈥� Jarrott continues. 鈥淚t became even more relevant between 2016 and the time that it was actually presented for the first time on Broadway in 2018, because it deals with truth vs. accuracy, facts vs. truth, how negotiable is a fact, the complexity of the truth鈥� and these things continue to be relevant today, even after 2020. I think these are things that we are still dealing with. It鈥檚 a funny play and it鈥檚 a moving play, and it鈥檚 a very, very relevant play.鈥�