The African American experience is not represented solely by one voice or one style. Horse Trade Theater Group and The Fire This Time Festival provide a platform for talented early-career playwrights of African and African American descent to explore challenging new directions for 21st century theater.



The Fire This Time Season 4
January 21st to February 2nd, 2013,
The Kraine Theater and The Red Room Theater, 85 E. 4th St.

ALL EVENTS START AT 8pm

Opening Event Panel Discussion- TBA
January 21, 2013 @ 8pm
Kraine Theater, FREE

Ten Minute Play Showcase

January 24, 25, 26, 31 and February 1,2, 2013 @8pm
The Kraine Theater $15, Thursday

Purchase tickets HERE.


Nightfall
By Cynthia G. Robinson
Directed by Cezar Williams
A Sudanese couple is forced to confront the mayhem that haunts their village and threatens to destroy their family.



Always
By Danielle T. Davenport
Directed by Awoye Timpo
When Malik shows up at a reading of his childhood best friend Erica's celebrated new novel after over a decade of distance between them, sparks fly as they navigate an emotional minefield of shared history summoned up by the book's plot.



Poor Posturing
By Tracey Conyer Lee
Directed by Kevin R. Free
Can't we all just get along? Maybe...if we stop trying so hard.



Orchids and Polka Dots
By Nathan Yungerberg
Directed By Nicco Annan
1955: An emotionally stifled housewife, a fledgling young research scientist and a tall glass of water infused with 100 gamma of LSD.



Within Untainted Wombs
By Dennis A. Allen II
Directed by Christopher Burris
An expecting mother participates in a clinical trial that gives her the ability to communicate with her unborn child, but she soon finds that some thoughts are better left unshared.



Favored Nations
By J. Holtham
Directed by Nicole A. Watson
In an upscale office, two brothers meet for the last time to settle their father's will. Secrets are revealed, grudges are settled, teddy bears are threatened with execution. Family...can't live with 'em.



The Sad, Secret (Sex) Life of Steve Urkel
By Eric Lockley
Directed by Jonathan McCrory
Sometimes experiments go terribly wrong. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction . . . in bed.


Play Readings
January 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30, 2013 @ 8pm

The Red Room Theater
ALL READINGS ARE PAY WHAT YOU WILL

January 22, 2013:
Dirty Little Black Girls
By Patricia Ione Lloyd

January 23, 2013:
Four
By Jocelyn Bioh

January 27, 2013: 6pm
THIS PLAY IS UNTITLED: a working title
By Antoinette Nwandu

January 27, 2013: 8pm
Boat People
By France-Luce Benson

January 28, 2013:
Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, or Triple Consciousness
By Kevin R. Free

January 29, 2013:
Ndebele Funeral
By Zoey Martinson

January 30, 2013:
Elder's Mythology of Grass Part 1: Miracle on Monroe
By Jerome A. Parker

RSVP FOR FREE EVENTS @ firethistimefestival@gmail.com