Please join BLACK MAGIC WOMAN Productions on Monday, February 10, at 6 pm for a script-in-hand reading of “Ushers In The House,” a new one-act drama by Joseph P. Blake. Admission is free, light refreshments provided.
PLAY SYNOPSIS:
At 85, Oscar Thomas is a Vietnam Veteran, former Black Panther, widower, father, and a grandfather. He’s also worked as a farm laborer, spent four decades as a postal worker. In the sunset of his life he’s begun to contemplate his legacy and the possessions he wants to leave his family. The latter has forced him to grapple with the painful fact that items he considers heirlooms are insignificant to his family and viewed as relics of a past just as insignificant to them.
A painting entitled “Ushers” is among the things Oscar has collected since his daughters were children. Oscar’s perceptions of the the world are now viewed through lenses where things like humility, courage, and familial loyalty are becoming as obsolete as a rotary phone.
Note: A brief Talk-back with the actors and the playwright will follow this premiere reading!