Review: B Street Theatre’s A Moving Day

B Street Theatre continues its 23-year tradition of presenting an original play for the holidays. This year, for its final production in its home on B Street before moving to new digs at The Sofia, the company stages A Moving Day, a moving play by Dave Pierini and Buck Busfield.

Set in Cleveland (for no obvious reason) in the present, the play tackles the problem of home foreclosures and homelessness through the story of Patrick Ignatius (the wonderful Greg Alexander) as he confronts two moving men, Frank and Casey (Kurt Johnson and Tim Liu) who have come to cart away his possessions. Although he has been away from the house for many years, it is his family home. He begs for one more night in the house to continue searching for an item from his childhood that is his connection to a departed sister.

Completing the cast are Stephanie Altholz as a spirited young woman linked to the house, and Jamie Jones in a cameo of sorts as Frank’s wife, Karen. Their marriage is in jeopardy because of a failure to adequately communicate thoughts and feelings.

Will the missing object be found? Does the girl stand a ghost of a chance? Can the troubled marriage get on its way to recovery?

It’s a B Street holiday show. What do you think?