Forgotten Soldiers

FORGOTTEN SOLDIERS FROM OUR FORGOTTEN WAR will be streaming on demand May 27-31, 2021. Tickets for this benefit for the First Flight Theatre Company are available at https://www.showtix4u.com/event-details/53149.

About First Flight’s most recent virtual performance…“Adapting the play for our modern pandemic world and performing on Zoom, First Flight Theatre Company, in the hands of director Karen Eterovich and stage manager Abby Farber, have managed to recapture the joy of Burney’s rarely performed play, and recreate the intimacy of a private performance through this virtual medium.” - Katie Aske, Northumbria University

For Memorial Day, First Flight Theatre Company presents FORGOTTEN SOLDIERS FROM OUR FORGOTTEN WAR May 27 - May 31, 2021, a benefit for First Flight.

Forgotten Soldiers From Our Forgotten War The First Flight Theatre Company presents FORGOTTEN SOLDIERS FROM OUR FORGOTTEN WAR written and directed by Frank Farrell; 27 letters, most sent by Majors Edward Hines and James Cumiskey in 1951 and 1952 to an apartment on 180th Street in New York City, where newlyweds Frank and Mary Gossett lived.....

Never in my 45 years of theatre have I had such an experience of directing a production that features characters who are my parents, my sister and myself. Actress Charlie Gillette appears as my mother Mary Gossett and my sister Sharon Temby in Forgotten Soldiers From Our Forgotten War. Actor Stephen Kime appears as my father and myself. Actors Danny Beaton and Charles Kennedy appear as Eddie Hines and Jimmy Cumiskey, my father's boyhood friends who served in the Korean War.

We had our first performance of Forgotten Soldiers From Our Forgotten War last night. It was a splendid start for this new play. Two more performances: 11/16 & 11/17 @ 178 Bennett Ave in NYC at 7pm.

A play features actors, costumes and set pieces. It also includes props the actors handle. At tonight's opening performance of Forgotten Soldiers From Our Forgotten War at St Mary's Episcopal Church in Harlem the magazine attached to this post will be read by Mary Gossett. The play takes place in 1951 & 1952 in the Washington Heights bedroom of Mary and Frank Gossett where they read letters from Jimmy and Eddie who are fighting in Korea. All performances start at 7 p.m. For reservations send an email to [email protected].