House on Fire
- Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
- 4M, 1F
- ISBN: 9780573708473
In this moving and funny parable of love, resentment, family and redemption, miracles abound in Fishtown, PA, on the edge of the Delaware River, where four-flushers and thieves abound.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- 90 minutes
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
- Performance Group:
- College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
In this moving and funny parable of love, resentment, family and redemption, secrets emerge from Coleman's other life, which make it increasingly difficult to tell who is running toward or away from whom.
REVIEWS:
CRITIC'S PICK! "Kessler's dark comic looking at warped family dynamics. A wild and wooly ride."
Los Angeles Times
"Funny and thought-provoking. A transcendental perspective."
Palm West Monthly
"A play about redemption. [...] An emotional trainwreck."
WFB Magazine
Characters
- Casting: 4M, 1F
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House on Fire takes place in Fishtown, PA, on the edge of the Delaware River, where four-flushers and thieves abound. Coleman returns home to his dutiful brother, Dale, and their baseball-obsessed Old Man, but he's not exactly alone. Following Coleman are a one-armed grifter and his ethereally empathic sister. |
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