BURNING IN WATER, DROWNING IN FLAME Begins Tonight at Tuesday Night Cafe Theatre

Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame runs at Tuesday Night Cafe Theatre tonight, March 18 - Saturday the 21, and Wednesday March 25 - Saturday the 28. Performances start at 8 pm, with doors at 7:50 pm. Tickets are $6 for students/seniors, and $10 general admission. You are most definitely invited to the Free Press Preview for writers and photographers, on Monday March 16 at 8 pm.

Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame begins in a care facility in the year 2045. Marty, Tate, Lane, and Haydée, once soldiers in the World War of 2015 - 2021, languish from a military-induced drug, Ephembrium. With it, their emotions and memories are blocked, replaced by a state of perpetual present. Without it, they are vulnerable to feelings and traumas they have neglected for the past thirty years. Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame explores characters aging with voluntary repression, only influenced by and existing with the objects and people immediately around them. It then takes us back to the night, in an alternate present, when all four subjects signed up to be injected with Ephembrium and fight in the war. A stunning piece of collective creation based on the caustic poetry of Charles Bukowski, which itself is woven throughout the play, Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame asks us: how does one choose to surrender choice?

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