Special Event at Somerset Valley Players this Saturday Night Only
| THE TOMB This is a staged reading of an original play by local playwright Roy Barry |
WHEN: Saturday, July 20, at 7 PM
WHERE: Somerset Valley Players, 689 Amwell Road, Hillsborough
ADMISSION: free and seating is "first-come, first-served."
Theater doors open at 6:30 PM.
Reservations are not being taken for this reading.
Join us after the reading for Q&A with playwright Roy Barry and the cast.
Light refreshments will be served after the reading.
Reggie, a World War I Army Private (a Medic) hailing from Mississippi, is discovered tied to the exterior vicinity of The Tomb of the Unknown in Virginia, in a limbo he does not fully understand. His “time” is broken in upon by Joe, a World War II Marine, who arrives in a flash of white light, direct from his moment of demise on an island in the Pacific.
Another white flash sends Reuben, a black Korean War Army Captain, to join their ranks at the Tomb. The final arrival is Blake, a California born Vietnam era soldier, still in a drug haze, unaware of and unable to accept his own death.
Life experience, cultural and religious differences, and differing values threaten these four and their newly formed, delicate brotherhood. Blake’s arrival becomes a catalyst to their conflicts . . . and the new “mission” they identify and accept at . . . "The Tomb".
Just a few miles west of Route 206.
"Yes, we are the little red schoolhouse!"
Wheelchair Accessible and Air Conditioned
