Residents Of North Philly’s Most Troubled Neighborhood Are Putting Their Story On Stage

“Mike Durkin stands on Kensington Avenue, handing out fliers for a play he wants the neighborhood to help him write. It’s called The Old Man and the Delaware River, an adaptation of the celebrated Ernest Hemingway short novel, The Old Man and the Sea. … In Durkin’s version, the old man is the people of Kensington and the struggle is the opioid crisis.”