New West Theatre continues their mini online play reading series on March 4 with a reading of Calgary based , Lethbridge raised playwright Col Cseke’s “Jim Forgetting.”
Ashley Thomson and Calgary actor Mike Tan play Jim and Donna, a middle aged couple coping with Jim’s early onset dementia.
“Casting for this play is key,” said New West Theatre artistic director Kelly Reay, praising the actors.
“ It was challenging to cast a middle aged couple. But they really do the roles justice,” he said adding he has worked with both actors before.
“Jim Forgetting” is part of New West Theatre’s mandate to support Albertan and Canadian playwrights
Reay has known Cseke for 15 years, so he is excited to revisit Csekes’s work.
“I saw this play a few years ago in Calgary and it stuck with me,” Reay said.