Reston Community Players to Premiere "The Passage"

Reston Community Players will conclude its 2013-14 season with the world premiere of The Passage, a futuristic tale depicting the normalization of assisted suicide.

The play is set some time in the not-too-distant future, after “the last human right” has become an accepted practice and woven into the social fabric, according to author Donald C. Drake. It covers the four hours preceding the scheduled passage of Angus Dewart, as families and friends gather at the traditional party given to people about to depart this world. The play follows the reactions of the family to Angus’s decisions.

The cast for The Passage includes Rick Kenney (Angus), Carole Preston (Susan), Michael Clendenin (Frank), Erin Campagnoni (Eileen), Cameron Bond (Nicholas), and K. Sridhar (Mr. Singh).

Playwright and three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee Donald Drake has worked as a special projects writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, which influenced his use of playwriting techniques to dramatize and explain complex news events.

The Passage will be performed at the Industrial Strength Theater at 269 Sunset Park Dr. on June 20-21 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased online at http://restonplayers.org/npps-the-passage.