FIREHOUSE NEW PLAYS

Co-produced with Richmond Triangle Players

The Sparkle Wars

by Brendan Bourque - Sheil

Directed by Lucian Restivo

In a major city of the American South lies the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood of Memorial, where just about every type of American life is crammed into fifteen chaotic miles. When a group of Memorial High School Theatre students get the their production of The Laramie Project shut down by a book-banning school board, they decide to make their own piece of documentary theatre about the fight to get the play back, which takes them to the front lines of a culture war guaranteed to change their neighborhood and all of them with it. The Sparkle Wars is a mockumentary about how communities create and tell the stories that define them.

Sparkle Wars was developed in part through the Madison New Works Lab at James Madison University.