![A free reading of Link's play "Sweet Forgotten" takes place tonight at Pace.](http://www.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/large_lightbox/hash/5e/85/5e853df420dd280b191cb8fdf48015d0.jpg "A free reading of Link's play "Sweet Forgotten" takes place tonight at Pace.")
Remember life before Facebook photos? How about a time before cameras captured every precious moment on film to be framed, uploaded, scrapbooked, or texted?
New York Playwright Patrick Link doesn’t either, which is why he chose to make the art of the portrait the focus of his latest work, “Sweet Forgotten Flavor.”
“Sweet Forgotten Flavor,” directed by Kel Haney, is a period piece set in 1820s Europe. The story follows a painter who is commissioned to do a portrait of a dying attorney. It is during one of their portrait sessions that the attorney confesses to once having an affair with a townswoman. He is desperate to contact her but is unable and so offers the painter a huge sum of money to draw a series of portraits of this woman, based on his memory of her. The drawings end up in the wrong hands and humor, excitement and romance ensue.
“I've always been interested in what the world was like before photographs; how central photographs are in terms of our memories and proof of our existence,” remarked Link. “At the moment we can Google search an image of anything, but thinking about a world where our memories and understanding of events and people is only accessible through the hands of an artist is really interesting to me.”
Tonight, Youngblood, Ensemble Studio Theatre’s collective of emerging professional playwrights under 30, presents a free reading of “Sweet Forgotten Flavor” at Pace University’s Schaerberle Studio Theater.
The cast features Janet Zarish, the head of Graduate Acting at NYU and James Murtaugh known for his role as Ron on Season 1 of “30 Rock”. Showtime is 7:00 PM.
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