WHAT to Present Reading of THE SHADOW CHILD

In Myra Slotnick's new play The Shadow Child, an ever-present darkness permeates a family in 1960s Brooklyn until a young boy enters their lives, reawakening them and their haunted past. Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater is proud to present a reading of The Shadow Child on December 3 at 7:30 PM. The reading is directed by Jeffry George.

In an Author's Note, Ms. Slotnick writes; "I have always believed this to be true and, almost without exception, have always written as if my life (or someone's) depended on it. I rounded the corner of completion of the first draft of The Shadow Child this past summer, just before it would be clear that something very dangerous was about to happen in our electorate, and that a fascist and a demagog was to be running for the highest office in the land. The echoes of the second World War spoke to me and threw its voice to the heavens in immediate and visceral defiance and outrage. The undeniable ending of the play became clear to me. The truth is history can, and often does, repeat itself. The question becomes: Do we let it? The Shadow Child was intended as a healing of sorts, for a small family in 1960s Brooklyn, yet it has also become, and quite accidentally, a rallying cry of 'Never again!'"

Myra Slotnick is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and is an award-winning playwright whose work has been produced across the country. The World Premiere of The Weight of Water opened at the historic Provincetown Theater in 2011.The play, about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, garnered much critical acclaim prompting a staged reading at The Abingdon Theatre in NY in 2012, followed by a full production in NY in 2013, off-Broadway, with the entire original cast. In January of 2015, Ms. Slotnick (book & lyrics) and Grammy winning composer Peter Stopschinski, staged the inaugural reading of their new musical, The Beachcomber Boys, about Provincetown's famed artists colony, in New York's West Village, as well as at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum to celebrate the Beachcomber's Centennial, in spring of 2016. A reading of Ms. Slotnick's play, The Children of Desire, about the offspring of famed A Streetcar Named Desire, was produced by Resonance Ensemble in July of 2015 at Manhattan Theatre Club.

The Shadow Child

by Myra Slotnick

December 3 at 7:30 PM

$10

Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater

2357 Route 6, Wellfleet

508-349-9428

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