The Fire This Time 10-Minute Play Festival (2016) Krainer Theater, NYC January 21-February 6, 2016
The Obie Award-winning The Fire This Time Festival, a showcase of "early-career playwrights of African and African American descent," has returned to the East Village for its seventh iteration. Its 10-minute play festival features a strong slate of seven new short plays that demonstrate the festival's mission statement, that "[t]he African American experience is not represented...by one voice or one style," with tremendous impact.
The opening piece is clarity, by Korde Arrington Tuttle. An often-poetic monologue, clarity is spoken by Georgia resident Cameron, read on opening night by the playwright himself, in anticipation of his wedding. As he discusses his relationship with the man whom he loves, Cameron touches on the competing complexities of individual, familial, and racial identities. His refrain of "just to be clear" echoes his own search for clarity in these matters, as well...
The Obie Award-winning The Fire This Time Festival, a showcase of "early-career playwrights of African and African American descent," has returned to the East Village for its seventh iteration. Its 10-minute play festival features a strong slate of seven new short plays that demonstrate the festival's mission statement, that "[t]he African American experience is not represented...by one voice or one style," with tremendous impact.
The opening piece is clarity, by Korde Arrington Tuttle. An often-poetic monologue, clarity is spoken by Georgia resident Cameron, read on opening night by the playwright himself, in anticipation of his wedding. As he discusses his relationship with the man whom he loves, Cameron touches on the competing complexities of individual, familial, and racial identities. His refrain of "just to be clear" echoes his own search for clarity in these matters, as well...
- 1/26/2016
- by Leah Richards
- www.culturecatch.com
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