10-Minute Play Festival- TFFT


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.
10-Minute Play Festival
Sat 1/25 @ 8pm, Sun 1/26 @ 8pm, Mon 1/27 @ 8pm, Sat 2/1 @ 8pm, Sun 2/2 @ 8pm & Mon 2/3 @ 8pm
Disunion
Written by Judy Tate
Directed by Melissa Maxwell
Dr. Turner leads the most respected non-profit agency around, and now he's going to run for Senate, but when his most loyal employee shows up to the party, his ambitions hit a snag.

The Weatherin'
Written by Jonathan Payne
Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz
“History's a ghost. We just choose to forget. It'll remind ya, though. One time to another, my time to your time...Forty years ago it was...Night I cross that river...somebody died...”

Gravity
Written by Josh Wilder
Directed by Reginald L. Douglas
Two men/made of clay/ discover their wings.

Dream Awake
Written by Erika Rose
Directed by Michole Biancosino
New mother, Sasha, estranged from her childhood church, confronts her dreams, nightmares and herself.

In Communion
Written by Lori Elizabeth Parquet
Director TBA
A couple in love faces a new year's "revelation" and must redefine their relationship as a result.

Slow Gin Fits
Written by Angelica Chéri
Directed by Cezar Williams
In a spirited game of gin rummy, Harold and Dinah discover they are both in need of a little more than a card game and small talk to pass the time and kill the pain. Wonder what a little liquid courage can do?