Hudson Guild Theatre Company
presents
A FIVE MILE RADIUS
Written by Tasha Partee
Directed by Jim Furlong and Devin Klos

Hudson Guild Theatre Company’s YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0BZGvI9nx3OJWyYTDodAFA
Streaming through November 1, 2020 at 5 PM

Assistant Director -Michele Tokarczyk
Publicity -Scotti Rhodes
CAST
Edie - Stacey Wright
Caitlin - Michele Quintero
Lucy - Danielle Patsakos
Dustin - Anthony Roberts II
Patrick - Alex Lugo
Roberta - Tasha Partee
Jerry - Manuel Estevez
Yvonne - Kim Gardner
Marla - Ashley Woolcock
Witness in Bar - Michele Tokarczyk
EMT - Devin Klos
Pop - Jim Furlong

Hudson Guild Theatre Company's world premiere of Tasha Partee's A FIVE MILE RADIUS is a dramatic work set in 2018 with flashbacks to the 1980’s, 1990’s and 2004. A virtual performance streaming on the company’s official YouTube channel, the performance technique features the actors in split-screen to give the impression of characters being in the room together, or speaking via phone and texting.

The story is set in Staten Island and opens on July 4, 2018, as food critic Edie has her night upended by tragic events involving a neighbor’s child. As someone with a social media presence, Edie has a plea for prayers posted online by her assistant, Caitlin, along with a photograph of the child that Caitlin warns will cause division amongst the followers. Due to a particular hat the child is wearing in the photo, clashes do ensue, and this terrible event calls the motivations, beliefs and associations of characters into question.

In the course of this 90-minute production, A FIVE MILE RADIUS takes the audience into Edie’s past to reveal events that shaped her as well as a very personal tragedy. Particularly toward the end, in interactions with her father, we see the devastating impact to her self-esteem and understand better her earlier passion and involvement with the neighbor’s heartbreak. Through the characters, many of whom are peripheral and participating via twitter, the play presents a microcosm of more current events and divisiveness currently present in the United States.

- Kessa De Santis -