New Play At the Steamer Co. Firehouse Theater Starts April 11

The Westchester Collaborative Theater presents a world premiere play for nine performances in Ossining in April to open its 2014 season.

The WCT calls this its most robust mainstage production to date: the world premiere of Ward James Riley’s full-length play Forget About Me, directed by Jessica Davis Irons, former artistic director of NYC’s Andhow! Theatre Company.

It features: Ann Gulian, Femi Alao, Ron Schmittker, Somari Davis, Miguel Angel Garcia, Julie Griffin, Carly Griffin-Fiorello, Aisling Mulhern, with set designs by Andrew Irons and costumes by Libby Brennes-Holtz.
 
Set against a backdrop of the Irish-American tenement world of New York during World War II, Forget About Me explores one family’s struggle with issues of race, religion, physical handicaps and morality, and a dangerous secret that hangs in the balance, threatening to implode and destroy everything in its wake, according to the WCT website.

Steamer Co. Firehouse Theater
117 Main St., 2nd Floor
Ossining, NY
(Note: this venue requires walking up a flight of stairs)

Performance Dates
Friday     April 11, 8pm; post-performance reception with the artists
Saturday April 12, 8pm
Sunday   April 13, 3pm; talk-back session with the playwright, 
                                   director & cast following this performance
Friday     April 18, 8pm
Saturday April 19, 2pm and 8pm
Friday     April 25, 8pm
Saturday April 26, 2pm and 8pm

Following its engagement at the Steamer Co. Firehouse, the play will go on tour at several Atria senior living facilities throughout Westchester County.

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The Westchester Collaborative Theater is a multicultural, cooperative theater company located in Ossining, NY, dedicated to nurturing new work for the stage and bringing live theater to our community. We are playwrights, actors, and directors who employ a Lab approach in which new stage works are nurtured through an iterative process of readings, critique, and reworking. When our original works are ready, we perform them for the public and at local senior residences. Learn more about us here.