Play Explores People's RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN Online

WDCB’s Gary Zidek catches up with theater artist Sarah Gitenstein to talk about the play she directed, RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN.

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Should a mistake someone made when they were 17 haunt them for the rest of their life? Obviously it depends on the mistake, and how it affected those impacted by the mistake. The new play RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN dives into the gray area of perpetual public shaming in the internet age. It comes from Brooklyn-based playwright Sharyn Rothstein and is getting its Chicago premiere at Raven Theater.

(Left to right)Kelsey Elyse Rodriguez and Adam Shalzi in RavenTheatre’s Chicago premiere of Right To Be Forgotten. Photo credit: Michael Brosilow.

In the play, a man in his late 20s is finding it hard to escape a cringey series of incidents he was a part of ten years prior. His situation is the jumping off point for a large discussion about quote-unquote “right to be forgotten” legislation that’s been passed in some European countries, that allows people to request certain things be scrubbed from the internet.

Raven Theatre’s production of RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN is running through April 2. Go to raventheatre.com for more info