“And then one day the religious right gets bored and tells a lie,” Ernest begins confessing to Bertram after the gossip hits the tabloids, “and there, that night, you see it for the first time. And you say to yourself, Did they see it? Did they sense it? They found the lie with an ounce of truth.” This short, Ernest and Bertram, directed by Peter Spears and written by TC Smith and Spears (with a nod to Lillian Hellman) is a gem on many levels, and the only truly faithful mounting of Hellman’s The Children’s Hour since its original 1952 Broadway production. Watch it at YouTube. (t/y Beau)