Shades

Using the arts to help people grapple with their
hopes, feelings, conflicts, and fears in a time of
war, Peter Standish Productions with Sage Theatre,
Inc., and Spotlight On Productions presents a free,
public reading of Shades, a work by award-winning playwright Paula J. Caplan . Written a year before the
September 11 horrors, the play presciently resonates
with themes and feelings with which people have been
struggling since then. The reading will be followed by
discussion with the audience, led by social justice
activist priest, Fr. Francis Pizzarelli, SMM, who is
also a clinical social worker, educator, columnist,
and Founder and Director of Hope House Ministries

The play is about whether people who have strong
feelings about politics and patriotism can remain
close to family and friends whose views are at
opposite poles from theirs, and whether a person can
disagree with what the government is doing and still
be a good American. It’s also about the different ways
that people cope with the effects of war, and how
that’s affected by their sex and their race. Terra Vandergaw will direct.