Kids Write Festival Continues With 4 Plays By Local Students 6/5-6/7 In Raleigh

Burning Coal is excited to premier four plays by local students in a professional production this June. The plays, Mixed Emotions by Andy Sherman (Broughton High School), The Constant Watch by Katharine McClintock (Ravenscroft), The New York Visit by Courtney Pisano and Memories of Daisy by Miranda Curtis (Ligon Middle School School) were selected from submissions from across Wake and surrounding counties, and will be performed together by members of Burning Coal Theatre Company.

The performance will take place at the Meymandi Theatre at the Murphey School (224 Polk St., Raleigh) on June 5th & 6th at 7:30pm and June 7th at 2:00pm. Tickets for the event are $10 and may be obtained by calling 919.834.4001 or visiting www.burningcoal.org.

Burning Coal Theatre Company is one of Raleigh's professional theatre companies. 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.