Plays In Development

Our 2008 cadre of new plays in development are:

delta dandi by Sharon Bridgforth
when last we flew by Harrison David Rivers
Submerged from All Sides... by Aurin Squire

Each of these new works will be featured at Fire! New Play Festival 2008 this August at South Oxford Space. Since winter, playwrights have met reguarly in our play development workshop to offer each other support. Freedom Train will host talkbacks and offstage discussions that highlight the socio-political issues that their plays present. Additionally, each playwright will facilitate free playwriting workshops open to any playwright writing a play with a protagonist character they consider to be under-represented on stage. In the end, our play development process leads to strong work, connected to the lives of the communities in which we live.

Fire! 2008 collectively will cover a spectrum of human struggle and culture. Sharon Bridgforth’s delta dandi asks how does collective grief and trauma inform the African American experience? Harrison Rivers’ new work explores color perception and privilege within Black communities. And finally, Aurin Squire bravely presents a personal drama of overcoming sex addiction inside a sex-phobic U.S. society and within a sex-positive queer community.

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