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The African American experience is not represented solely by one voice or one style. For the fifth year in a row Horse Trade Theater Group will present The Fire This Time Festival- TFTT, providing 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 in order to move beyond common misconceptions of what's possible in 'black theater.'
The festival's core production is a 10-minute play festival, presenting new work written by featured playwrights.
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Our panel will feature playwrights and directors of Season One, looking into their endeavors in the past five years since TFTT was founded. We will find out how TFTT has helped to launch their careers, and gain insight into how they’ve orchestrated their own success with the help of the new community that supported them.
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Life is good for the Whitakers until their adopted son--a former child soldier--arrives from Uganda to his new home in the suburbs of Chicago. As the two worlds collide, he is yet again a victim and perpetrator of a war just as damaging as the one he escaped.
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