Local playwriter’s material hits Starlighters’ stage

     Starlighters II Community Theatre is proud to announce the cast of the original play “Lost Memories,” written by Cascade native Shawn Carr. This play is about a family as they discover one of their loved ones is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s/dementia. Although a sad subject, the show has humor and is not maudlin.

   The cast is as follows:

   • Phyllis, Kathleen Weiss

   • Jon, Damien Benedict

   • Kelly, Nancy Collell

   • Jennifer, Amy Wilcox

   • Mary, Denise Cherry

   • Jack, Robert Kurt

   • Rick, Steve Weiss

   • Lucinda, Marsha Fairbanks

   • Molly, Kendall Siebels

   The director and writer is Shawn Carr, and the assistant directors are B.J. Moeller and Janith Cratsenberg.

   This play is the manifestation of the dream that Carr has been working on for the past five years. The original first scene was read at a Starlighters’ Writer’s Workshop. Since the script was finished, it has undergone a series of rewrites, critiques by former teachers, readings by friends, and scrutiny of the Starlighters’ script committee. A friend who works in Hollywood read it, liked it, and told Carr that before ever trying to set it read elsewhere, the work needed to be put on a stage. Thus, it has been added to the Starlighters II Theatre studio repertoire for 2022.

   The show will have its premiere on the stage on Aug. 5, 6 and 7. This is considered a studio theatre production (not a part of the four regular main stage productions) and will only be performed one weekend.

   Tickets are available online at starlighters.org.