RETURN TO SEYMOUR STREET

by TOM DUDZICK

December 3 - 20

Peter Witkowski, an author, now divorced, visits his empty, run-down boyhood house on Seymour Street in Buffalo’s Polish East Side and, within that nostalgic atmosphere, attempts to rekindle a romance with his childhood sweetheart, the girl next door, Irene.  She’s now a West Coast TV producer and the show-runner for a “Fixer Upper” pilot episode that wants to rehab Peter’s old house.  But Irene’s also a widow with a 14-year-old son, Gary, a telekinetic psychic who can communicate with the beyond.  Just as things are looking up for Peter and Irene, Gary starts saying things like, “We’re not alone here.”  The grownups’ first instinct is to get out of that house fast until they are trapped by a Buffalo snowstorm.