A new play set in Delaware County on Memorial Day and Night, 2008 before the moratorium, when milk prices were down, the Great Recession began, the surge in Iraq was about to begin, Obama was coming on strong and Lehman Brothers was about to collapse.
Daniel Hale wants to honor his son, Marcellus, who died in Iraq defending the pipeline in Kirkuk.
He hopes to keep the diary farm that's been in the family for 10 generations and make it the place his son wanted before he redeployed. Mary, his wife, and their daughter and son-in-law oppose his signing a lease.
Colton an army buddy, who left the service before they were redeployed is a landman for a gas company and comes to the memorial where he meets the high school girlfriend of Marcellus.
It is a provocative exploration of human values and how we strive to hold on to them and what happens when we do. 
Saturday, August 2 at 7pm, there will be a premiere first staging of the new play followed by a talk-back and discussion.
On Saturday, August 9 at 7pm and Sunday, August 10 at 2pm the play, with new material in response to the feedback, will be presented again.
Memorial Night is written by Jonathon Ward, directed by Ron Nash, produced by Little Victory Players, artistic director Ernest Schenk. The actors will be from Upstate New York and New York City. The play was commissioned by NYSCA through the Roxbury Arts Group and is produced with funds from the NYSCA Decentralization Grant to the Roxbury Arts Group.
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