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OPEN CURRENT THEATRE, a new Hudson Valley theatre company, is seeking actors to workshop and perform staged readings of a new play:

"WE KEEP THE SHELLS," written by Laura (Pittenger) Jordan—a New York City-based playwright and author—covers a pivotal moment in the early life of DOROTHY DAY: journalist, social activist, and bohemian. 

Famous for starting The Catholic Worker, a newspaper addressing the needs of the poor, Day's advocacy incited a widescale movement and drove radical changes in social justice, labor rights, and care for the poor & vulnerable throughout the country and the world. Her impact remains highly relevant today. 

The play is set in the early 1920s on Staten Island. 

FORSTER BATTHERHAM - male 30s; tall, lanky, with a straight-laced/uptight veneer but with depth and passion underneath; an atheist & political radical; Dorothy's lover & father of her child.