Neglect at Bank Street Theater

3Graces Theater Co presents Neglect, by Sharyn Rothstein and directed by Catherine Ward, at the Bank Street Theater from 10 - 25 Oct 2006.

Presented in repertory with Nickel and Dimed by Joan Holden, based on the book Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich.

Neglect is based on the 1995 Chicago heat wave that claimed the lives of over seven hundred elderly residents, mostly African-Americans who lived in social isolation. Neglect is the story of an elderly woman, Rose, and her young neighbor, Joseph, who come together on the first day of the heat wave to escape the unbearable heat and their own feelings of oneliness.