Boston Playwrights’ Theatre’s “The Honey Trap”

Boston Playwrights’ Theatre continues its 2016-17 season with The Honey Trap by Leo McGann. The drama will be directed by Adam Kassim and is co-produced with Boston University College of Fine Arts.

The Honey Trap:

When two off-duty British soldiers go for a drink on the outskirts of Belfast in 1979, they meet two local girls. What seems like a typical night at the pub turns into something much darker. Decades later, reliving that night for an oral history project, Dave reopens old wounds that send him back to Belfast in search of answers and revenge. An Irish tragedy.

February 16-26, 2017

Thursday 7:30 p.m. | Friday 8 p.m. | Saturday 8 p.m. | Sunday 2 p.m.

The Honey Trap is set in playwright McGann’s hometown of Belfast, which he describes as “a place where the present is rarely free from the past.”

McGann completed the first draft of the play in 2014; last year The Honey Trap (under its previous title, In the Moment) was the recipient of Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival’s National Partners of the American Theatre Playwriting Excellence Award.

“It’s exciting to now see the production coming together and to collaborate with a talented company via the BU College of Fine Arts’ New Play Initiative, all bringing their own instincts and experiences,” McGann says. “I have lived in Ireland, England and now America, and the characters in The Honey Trap hail from all three. The play explores this relationship of the past and present through memory, guilt, recrimination, and retribution.”

The production features Barlow Adamson, Maureen Keiller, Maggie Markham, Grace Ralbovsky, Conrad Sundqvist-Olmos, Ben Swimmer and Sarah Whelan.

A post-show conversation with The Honey Trap’s playwright, director, and cast members will follow the Feb. 18 performance.