Have you taken The Oath?

"Whether the current economic downturn is the new Great Depression or not doesn't interest me," says Jacqueline Goldfinger, playwright of The Oath, "as a playwright, I'm broke today, tomorrow, and until I drop dead (after which time I plan on being fabulously wealthy). What really interests me is how pressure forces people to reveal their true selves."

"Like Ofah, Cebe, and Joshua, we are struggling to balance our ideals with a harsh reality from the reemergence of vast tent cities to shootings at immigration centers to the loss of homes and lifetime savings. Along the way, we laugh and cry and fall in love and out again, but the struggle remains and will define us, as individuals and a nation, for generations to come."

Director Cristina Alicea believes, "the beauty and power of the play is that these people want so much to be good and do good -- but they all end up hurting themselves by making questionable choices to get there. And the audience gets to bear witness to each character dealing with the awareness of their own hypocrisy, or in Joshua's case, his lack thereof."

I invite you to "take the oath" with MTWorks world premiere production of The Oath beginning April 23rd through May 10th, at the historic ArcLight Theater (152 W 71st St).

For more information visit www.MTWorks.org