Burning Coal Theatre Company's KidsWrite festival of new plays by young writers will be presenTed May 28 - 30, 2010 at Burning Coal Theatre at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh. Performances are Friday and Saturday at 7:30 pm and Sunday at 2 pm. This year's plays are:
- Blueberry Trinkets by Gina Lama of Winterville, NC (South Central High School in Winterville) - Feast by Mary Clare Mazzocchi of Raleigh, NC (Cardinal Gibbons High School) - Stop/Loss by Elizabeth Huddleston (Raleigh Charter School) - At Annie's House by Audrey Dubois (Ligon Middle School) - In the Beginning by Jackson Bloom (Enloe High School)
Tickets for KidsWrite 2010 are $10 apiece and are available at the door. Please come support tomorrow's great playwrights today!
Burning Coal Theatre Company is a small, professional theatre located in Raleigh, NC. Burning Coal is an incorporated, non-profit [501 (c) (3)] organization. Burning Coal's mission is to produce literate, visceral, affecting theatre that is experienced, not simply seen. Burning Coal produces explosive reexaminations of overlooked classic and modern plays, as well as new plays, whose themes and issues are of immediate concern to our audience, using the best local, national and International Artists available. We work toward a Theatre Of high-energy performances and minimalist production values. The emphasis is on literate works that are felt and experienced viscerally, unlike more traditional linear plays, at which audiences are most often asked to observe without participating. Race and gender non-specific casting is an integral component of our perspective, as well as an international viewpoint.
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