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Roman à clef
World Premiere
by Chandler Hubbard
May 8- 26, 2024
Directed by Sharon Ott
Dramaturgy by Naysan Mojgani
In a quiet, seemingly empty theatre, six actors rehearse a new play about family, fear, and flight. Led by Jack, their visionary director, the cast finds themselves stepping beyond the boundaries of the show he meant to write. When a stranger joins the group demanding answers, the line between fiction and reality fades, twisting meaning and identity irreversibly. What begins as a play-within-a-play devolves into a play-without-a-play, until all that's left is the truth. If we can even call it that.
Roman à Clef is a product of the TNT New Play Incubator.
Buried Child
by Sam Shepard
July 2-21, 2024
As part of our year-long celebration of Firehouse founder Carol Piersol, we will honor her legacy with a new production of a landmark Firehouse project, Buried Child.
Buried Child is a macabre look at an American Midwestern family with a dark, terrible secret.
Berta, Berta
Virginia Premiere
by Angelica Chéri
September 27- October 15, 2023
Directed by Dr. Tawnya Pettiford-Wates
After committing an unforgivable crime, Leroy is granted one final wish: a chance to make amends with his long-lost lover, Berta. Their reunion swells from a quarrelsome conjuring of the past to an impassioned plot to escape their impending fate. The play is a fictional origin story of the prison chain gang song "Berta, Berta" which originated on the Parchman Farm, Mississippi State Penitentiary.
Presented in collaboration with The Conciliation Project
Berta, Berta is presented through special arrangement with and all authorized performance materials are supplied by TRW Plays 1180 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 640, New York, NY 10036. www.trwplays.com
Memories of
Overdevelopment
World Premiere
by Caridad Svich
February 7-25, 2024
Directed by Nathaniel Shaw
“Some plays are a quiet revolution about loud things. Some plays are about the stories we carry in our bones. This play is also a film: a staged documentary about what people remember about dictatorships where they grew up and how they left and how they survived. An enactment of seven startling, personal interviews, inspired by true stories. A rebellious look at where we’ve been and where we are right now.”
2022 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nomination,
2022 Semi-Finalist National Playwrights Conference Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center