FireDance
Alice is a waitress in New York City. Her brother Peter is homeless. Their mother Anna is missing. Alice meets a mysterious stranger who pretends that they are a couple. This man, Matt, is haunted by a ghost who is an “everywoman”—a shape-shifting incarnation of ordinary women from the U.S. past. A haunting, homeless, waitressing, unemployed, missing, murdering, suicide love story.
Cast Requirements
4 men
2 women
Set Description
Flexible
Publisher
Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays
Seagull Books
Press
“…the playwright takes the story far beyond such limitations of time and place…Given the playwright’s poetic language and imagery, the drama has reverberations which reach back into history and myth.”
Back Stage
Production and Development History
Production: Voice & Vision Theater (1998); Bard College (2010)
Workshop: New Georges (June 2010).