Alchemy Theatre presents the Dramatic Comedy PVT WARS

This is the first full production of our 2023 season “If You Knew My Story”.

**This play contains adult language and situations**

WHEN & WHERE:
This is Alchemy’s first full production in our new HOME! Alchemy Theatre’s Geneva Kent Center for the Arts – 68 Holley Avenue, Huntington, WV 25705

Fridays & Saturdays are evening shows
Sundays are matinees

WHAT IS THE PLAY ABOUT:
Three G.I.s recovering from Vietnam War injuries while away their time on the terrace of an Army hospital.

Gately, a hillbilly, fiddles compulsively with a disemboweled radio; Silvio, a streetwise, big-city type, is addicted to “flashing” (even though his sex organs have suffered—he thinks—irremediable battle damage); while Natwick, a prissy “rich kid” from Long Island, writes letters to his mother telling her how much he wants to become a close friend of Gately (while omitting mention of how actively Silvio dislikes him).

Comprised of a series of brief blackout scenes, the play blends these into a meaningful mosaic as the three tease, torment, entertain, exasperate and, on occasion, solace each other—maintaining throughout a hilarity that belies their deep concern about the uncertainties of the civilian world to which they will soon be returning.