Unreconciled: A Performance by Jay Sefton
Saturday, May 25, 2024
7 PM
Unreconciled is the true story of an adolescent actor cast as Jesus in a school play directed by a parish priest. The story chronicles a survivor’s journey as he confronts his past, navigates a victims’ reparations program set up by the Catholic Church, and discovers the courage to use his voice. This 80-minute piece is a poignant and at times humorous exploration of family, place, and the meaning of reconciliation. www.unreconciledtheplay.com
“Sefton put on an acting clinic, inhabiting 13 different characters. It all added up to one of the most amazing pieces of acting I’ve ever seen. It was also funny as hell and very moving.”
—Daily Hampshire Gazette
“An extraordinary work of art on the impossible topic.”
—Terry McKiernan (Founder and President Bishop Accountability)
About Our Presenter
Jay Sefton (Playwright/Performer) is an actor and licensed mental health counselor, originally from Philadelphia, and currently based in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Selected theatre credits include: Unreconciled (Writer/Performer, Chester Theatre Company), What the Constitution Means to Me (WAM Theatre/Berkshire Theatre Group and Capital Rep, Albany), Honor Killing, Paradise (WAM Theatre, Fresh Takes Reading Series), The Ladyslipper, Million Dollar Quartet, Outside Mullingar (The Majestic Theater), Two Rooms (Silverthorne Theatre Company), The Most Mediocre Story Never Told (Writer/Performer), A Life in the Theatre, Dark Rapture (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre), King Lear (Theatricum Botanicum, Los Angeles). Jay is the recipient of the LA WEEKLY Award for Best Solo Performance for The Most Mediocre Story Never Told. Film/TV: The Wire, Grey’s Anatomy, The Shield, Summerland, Providence. He is a member of Actors’ Equity and SAG-AFTRA. website
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