Tenders in the Fog

City Lights Theater Company of San Jose presents a staged reading of the new play Tenders in the Fog, by Trevor Allen, directed by Kent Nicholson as a part of City Lights’ New Play Reader’s Series. An audience TalkBack will follow the show on both nights.

In Tenders in the Fog, A Shanachie, or traditional Irish storyteller, tells the tale of the Bailey Banshee and the ghost ship, Trinity. As the audience meets the crew of the doomed ship (three generations of crab fishermen–a grandfather, father and son), the Shanachie becomes a shape-shifting Banshee, taking on different guises in a siren-like attempt to lure the men into the sea. The story is a haunting and fugue-like exploration of the lives of these three men, their relationships to each other and to the sea… and a possible explanation of their sudden disappearance.