Publisher's Synopsis
"Inspired by the amazing tale of Wonder Woman's real-life genesis, Lasso of Truth explores the knotty origin story of our preeminent female superhero. William Marston is a truly improbable character in American history: psychologist, author and inventor of both the lie detector -- a precursor to our modern polygraph -- and Wonder Woman. It comes as only a slight surprise to learn that Marston was a bondage enthusiast. The early Wonder Woman comics involve a great deal of capture and tying-up, not to mention the veracity-forcing Lasso of Truth. More surprising is the revelation that he lived with two women in a large blended family: his wife, Elizabeth, and Olive Richards, his research assistant. The two amazingly strong forward-thinking and iconoclastic women together served as the inspiration for Wonder Woman. This unusual family romance is the perfect proving ground for the play's overarching questions of truth and verifiability,
