The poster for “Forgotten” was designed by Holly Syrrakos — the sister-in-law of the show’s composer, Steve Jones — and features a 1930s painting of an unknown worker by an artist with the last name of DeLappe.

Photo provided by Dave Elsila

Lucia Wylie-Eggert and Ben Blondy rehearse a scene from “Forgotten,” in which they portray Lewis Bradford and his wife, Ella.

DETROIT — Truth has a way of rising to the surface — even when it’s buried by years of fear and misunderstanding.

When the Rev. Lewis Bradford was found critically hurt in an isolated part of the Ford Motor Co. River Rouge plant in Dearborn in November 1937 and died days later, the incident was quickly written off as an accident. But Bradford, an advocate for working people and the poor, had drawn the ire of Henry Ford by bro

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