Jamaica Plain’s own community theater, The Footlight Club, is proud to present its next 7A Black Box program, “After the Revolution” this April. Written by Amy Herzog, “After the Revolution” focuses on the impact to a family when its cherished history is challenged by new information. The play opens Saturday April 11 at 8pm, in the Parker Room of Eliot Hall at, 7A Eliot St, Jamaica Plain, the longtime home of America’s longest continuously operating community theater. Tickets are $20 to the public, free to members.
In “After the Revolution”, trilliant, promising Emma Joseph proudly carries the torch of her family’s Marxist tradition, devoting her life to the memory of her blacklisted grandfather. But when history reveals a shocking truth about the man himself, the entire family is forced to confront questions of honesty and allegiance they thought had been resolved. The New Yorker called the play “a shrewd, ironic meditation on what we do with history, how we appropriate it for our own psychological needs. Among the play’s many pleasures, the most satisfying is the way the characters struggle through their differences to listen to one another. The ability to listen is, perhaps, the definition of love”.
Directed by Michael Colford, “After the Revolution” stars Abby Kesselman as Emma, with Scot Colford as father Ben, Susan Diller as grandmother Vera and Samuel Dinnar as Uncle Leo. Jenn Bean, Marie Sioby, Oscar Villeda and Andy Moore round out the cast.
The 7A Black Box program of The Footlight Club provides members the opportunity to present smaller or more experimental shows, new work, staged readings, cabarets, stand-up comedy, and other reimaginings of theatrical productions. By doing so, its goals are to expand the club’s theatrical offerings via an additional space (the Parker Room), to create more opportunities for BIPOC creatives to mount productions, and to provide more adventurous, challenging or intimate theater experiences to existing and new audiences.
For more information about the 7A Black Box program, the Footlight Club, or “After the Revolution”, please go to the club’s website, www.footlight.org where you can also purchase tickets.
PERFORMANCE DETAILS
WHAT: The Footlight Club Black Box 7A Series presents “After the Revolution” by Amy Herzog
WHEN: April 11-12, 17-18, Friday and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm.
WHERE: The Footlight Club, Eliot Hall, 7A Eliot St, Jamaica Plain, MA.
MORE: Tickets $20, free to members. Available online at www.footlight.org or at the box office, the night of the show.