Forgotten Soldiers

05/26/2025

This was a promo for a virtual performance First Flight Theatre Company had in 2021 featuring Danny Beaton as Eddie Hines, Alexa Elmy, Charles Kennedy and Zander Kirby. This Memorial Day we remember Corporal Edward Hines killed in action in Korea in 1952.

05/31/2021

For Memorial Day: Till midnight only! Last chance to see First Flight Theatre's FORGOTTEN SOLDIERS FROM OUR FORGOTTEN WAR: Letters from Korea 1951 & 1952.

05/28/2021

Now playing through Memorial Day.

05/25/2021

FORGOTTEN SOLDIERS FROM OUR FORGOTTEN WAR will be streaming on demand May 27-31, 2021. Tickets for this benefit for the First Flight Theatre Company are available at https://www.showtix4u.com/event-details/53149.

About First Flight’s most recent virtual performance…“Adapting the play for our modern pandemic world and performing on Zoom, First Flight Theatre Company, in the hands of director Karen Eterovich and stage manager Abby Farber, have managed to recapture the joy of Burney’s rarely performed play, and recreate the intimacy of a private performance through this virtual medium.” - Katie Aske, Northumbria University

05/09/2021

For Memorial Day, First Flight Theatre Company presents FORGOTTEN SOLDIERS FROM OUR FORGOTTEN WAR May 27 - May 31, 2021, a benefit for First Flight.

The First Flight Theatre Company presents FORGOTTEN SOLDIERS FROM OUR FORGOTTEN WAR written and directed by Frank Farrell; 27 letters, most sent by Majors Edward Hines and James Cumiskey in 1951 and 1952 to an apartment on 180th Street in New York City, where newlyweds Frank and Mary Gossett lived.....

11/11/2018

Never in my 45 years of theatre have I had such an experience of directing a production that features characters who are my parents, my sister and myself. Actress Charlie Gillette appears as my mother Mary Gossett and my sister Sharon Temby in Forgotten Soldiers From Our Forgotten War. Actor Stephen Kime appears as my father and myself. Actors Danny Beaton and Charles Kennedy appear as Eddie Hines and Jimmy Cumiskey, my father's boyhood friends who served in the Korean War.

11/11/2018

We had our first performance of Forgotten Soldiers From Our Forgotten War last night. It was a splendid start for this new play. Two more performances: 11/16 & 11/17 @ 178 Bennett Ave in NYC at 7pm.

11/10/2018

A play features actors, costumes and set pieces. It also includes props the actors handle. At tonight's opening performance of Forgotten Soldiers From Our Forgotten War at St Mary's Episcopal Church in Harlem the magazine attached to this post will be read by Mary Gossett. The play takes place in 1951 & 1952 in the Washington Heights bedroom of Mary and Frank Gossett where they read letters from Jimmy and Eddie who are fighting in Korea. All performances start at 7 p.m. For reservations send an email to [email protected].

11/09/2018

Last night's rehearsal at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Harlem. Our first performance will be a benefit for this church on Saturday, November 10 at 7pm. Reservations at [email protected].