FIREHOUSE FRINGE

“I’m furniture. I’m worse than furniture. I’m flowers in a vase. And when I die they will replace me with new ones. Like they replaced you with me.”

May Welland has waited her whole life to reap the rewards of being Absolutely Perfect. She has her handsome—if a little aloof—fiancé Newland Archer, a pristine place in Gilded Age New York’s highest society, and the approval of her mother almost all of the time…until her cousin, the beautiful, volatile Countess Ellen Olenska returns from Europe stained with scandal. As friendship grows into illicit affection between Ellen and Newland, May begins to doubt that her delicately curated world can last…but what can she do? She’s just a girl…

Find out in this staged reading of The Age of Innocence, adapted from Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Claire Wittman. Directed by Chelsea Burke, director of Firehouse’s Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, Buried Child, and The Verge and starring Firehouse favorites Ally Dods (Great Comet), Nicole Cowans (Detroit 67), and Patrick Rooney (Buried Child).