Magnetite LLC Presents MORAL SUPPORT

Magnetite LLC presents "Moral Support," A new play by William Considine, premiering at the Medicine Show Theatre, 549 W. 52nd Street, 3rd floor, New York City.

A special limited run opening and running February 21, 22, 23 @ 8:00 p.m. / February 24 @ 4:00 p.m.; February 28, March 1, 2 @ 8:00 p.m. / March 3 @ 4:00 p.m.

Mary is divorced, estranged from her family and suffering with cancer. Her son Mike visits her during spring break. She asks him for concrete actions of moral support. Mike's father and aunt caution him not to get involved. Old wounds re-open, and the bonds of family and love are rigorously tested. Considine's naturalistic, family drama, autobiographical in detail, mixes elements of poetry and surrealism with a very real and devastating portrait of a troubled family and the demands of love. Directed by Félix Gardón, the cast includes Richard Keyser, Cynthia Shaw, Nora McCarthy, David A. P. Brown. Make reservations at JMAE.events@gmail.com.

William Considine is an honors graduate of Stanford and the Harvard Law School. He was first encouraged to write poetry by Diane Middlebrook and first studied writing poetry with Elizabeth Bishop. He was a member of the playwrights workshop of the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, coordinated by Ed Bullins, with four staged readings there, readings at St. Clement's and LaMama, and play performances at Theater for the New City, Brooklyn Army Terminal, Limbo Lounge, Ear Inn, ABC No Rio and Dixon Place. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Polaris North theater artists collaborative. In 2017, the Operating System published a volume of his plays, The Furies, which is available on Amazon and from the publisher. The Operating System has also published a chapbook of his poems, Strange Coherence. A CD of his poems with music, An Early Spring, is available on iTunes and from the label, Fast Speaking Music.