By Tom TeodorczukOriginal Source: marketwatch.comActress Chloe Sevigny vowed she would never play a heroin addict because she didn’t want to glamorize hard drugs.Yet she can currently be seen playing Mary Shannon, a mother addicted to heroin, cocaine and alcohol, in “Downtown Race Riot,” a play being produced by the New Group that has just opened at the Pershing Square Signature Center in Manhattan’s Times Square.“Downtown Race Riot,” by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, is set against the backdrop of a 1976 riot in New York’s Washington Square Park.“I took on this role because you see the deep humanity and suffering of addiction come out in the play,” Sevigny told MarketWatch.“So many people now suffer from addiction,” she said. “It affects the relationships in their lives and with their loved ones so it’s a seductive problem for a playwright to tackle. It’s also very relevant with the Oxycontin problem in America so it’s something that people are becoming really curious about.”They certainly are. The number of plays and movies about...click here to continue reading