Falconbridge Players will present Burn it Down: Two Plays from the Edge, reading one-act plays by Eugene O'Neill and August Strindberg, on Tuesday, September 19 at 7:00pm. Free admission, RSVP at Eventbrite. Doors open at 6:30pm.
Two pitiless tales about men on the brink. No feel-good endings in sight.
Ile by Eugene O’Neill (1917): monomania and a sad organist at sea.
Facing Death by August Strindberg (1910): the very extra end of a family long teetering on the brink.
Did you know that there is a rich history of drama outside the comfortable confines of Disney+? Literally thousands and thousands of tales in which many people do many unreasonable things, ignore the righteous protests of others, and pursue their own objectives with little care or regard for the world? Theater which doesn't want to leave the audience feeling good about what they've witnessed?
Falconbridge remembers. And they're bringing scorched earth drama back with two short plays from beyond the breaking point for this reading at Arts + Literature Laboratory.