The Fire This Time Year 4


The African American experience is not represented solely by one voice or one style. Horse Trade Theater Group will present THE FIRE THIS TIME FESTIVAL, a platform for talented early-career playwrights of African and African American descent to explore new voices, styles and challenging new directions for 21st century performing arts, and move beyond common ideas of what's possible in "black theater." The festival's core production is a short play festival, presenting new work by the featured playwrights. Other programming includes panel discussions, staged readings, and concert events.

10 Minute Plays

Nightfall, Always, Poor Posturing, Orchids and Polka Dots, Within Untainted Wombs, Favored Nations, and The Sad, Secret [Sex] Life of Steve Urkel
Boat People
Written by: France-Luce Benson

A full-length reading
Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, or TRIPLE CONSCIOUSNESS
Written by: Kevin R. Free
Directed by: Christopher Burris

A full-length reading
Dirty Little Black Girls
Written by: Patricia Ione Lloyd
Directed by: Michael Goldfried

A full-length reading
Elder's Mythology of Grass. Part 1: Miracle on Monroe
Written by: Jerome A. Parker

A full-length reading
Four
Written by: Jocelyn Bioh

A full-length reading
Ndebele Funeral
Written by: Zoey Martinson

A full-length reading
Renaissance Revival

The Fire This Time presents Renaissance Revival.... Join us for our annual fundraiser celebrating our past and presenting our future.