Irish playwrights use survivors' words to show horrors, heroes in 'OCTOBER 7'

Irish playwrights use survivors' words to show horrors, heroes in 'OCTOBER 7'

Northwestern University’s Cahn Auditorium, 600 Emerson St., will host a staged reading on Oct. 6 of the play, OCTOBER 7. Irish journalists, documentary filmmakers and playwrights Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, who are married, researched and wrote the play. Jeff Gurner directs the show. The play is composed of verbatim quotes from interviews with survivors […] Irish playwrights use survivors’ words to show horrors, heroes in ‘OCTOBER 7’ is f…