Hudson Guild Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Tasha Partee’s A Five Mile Radius, a virtual production that will be streamed on the Hudson Guild YouTube Channel October 23rd thru 25th. Jim Furlong directs a twelve actor cast in a play that couldn’t be more relevant to the divisive character of today’s America.

Set in a Staten Island apartment complex on the evening of July 4th, the story is a crisis point in the life of popular local food critic, Edie Pfeiffer whose working class roots are at once her shield and her Achilles heel. She finds her life upended when a neighbor’s seven year old son is accidentally shot, leading her to post a controversial picture of the boy on twitter asking for prayers that he survives. This sets off a flurry of comments ranging from highly sympathetic to completely hostile. When a sensitive issue from Edie’s past emerges that is connected to the boy’s plight her life starts to unravel. Imaginatively filmed using zoom technique, the play which addresses issues of class, race, gun control and social media.