Event

The Old Settler

New Horizon Theater, Inc. presents

The Old Settler
written by John Henry Redwood

May 26th (preview)
May 27th- june 5th, 2016

In World War II Harlem, New York, a fifty-five-year-old spinster (or as they were called in those daysan Old
Settler), Elizabeth Borny, takes in a young male roomer,
Husband Witherspoon, to help her with the rent. Husband has come to Harlem from South Carolina to search for his
> girlfriend, Lou Bessie Preston. Also living with Elizabeth is her sister, Quilly McGrath, fifty-three. There is an ominous cloud of tension that hangs over Elizabeth and Quilly's relationship. This tension is further exacerbated when Elizabeth and Husband take to liking each other. Quilly, who doesn't like Husband living with them in the first place, surely doesn't approve of their "carrying on," especially since Elizabeth is old
enough to be Husband's mother. It is this "carrying
on" that exposes a thirty-year-old wound which, until
now, only had a bandagenow the wound can be explored.

Carnegie Library Auditorium
7101 Hamilton Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15208 (Homewood)