"In 'Sophistry,' a new play by Jonathan Marc Sherman
at the Playwrights Horizons Studio, a popular tenured
professor stands accused of sexual harassment
by a male student."
— Frank Rich in The New York Times , theater review
on October 12, 1993
"At which point another play, inchoate but arresting,
edges into view." — Rich, ibid.
"Johansson began acting during childhood,
after her mother started taking her to auditions.
She made her professional acting debut
at the age of eight in the off-Broadway production
of 'Sophistry' with Ethan Hawke, at New York's
Playwrights Horizons."
— IMDb Mini Biography by: Pedro Borges
" 'Suddenly, I was 19 again and I started to remember
all the men I'd known who had taken advantage of
the fact that I was a young woman who didn't yet have
the tools to say no, or to understand the value of
my own self-worth,' the Avengers star described.
'I had many relationships both personal and professional
where the power dynamic was so off that I had to create
a narrative in which I was the cool girl who could hang in
and hang out, and that sometimes meant compromising
what felt right for me . . . . ' "
— Scarlett Johansson yesterday at the 2018 Women's March
in Los Angeles, as reported in E! News .
Image in a Log24 post
of March 12, 2009.