FringeNYC Previews

A FIRE AS BRIGHT AS HEAVEN

Produced by The Performance Project

Author: Tim Collins

My show is the past seven years of American history as seen through the eyes of the individual, beginning with 9/11 and ending with the 2008 elections. Audience members will see dozens of characters rampaging and navigating through their own emotions and opinions as America hurtles headlong towards a dubious future. From latte-toting Republicans, to conflicted anti-war protesters, to verbose and vehement Obama supporters, to well-armed and opinionated NRA members, I believe A Fire As Bright As Heaven portrays a wide range of feeling and hope, illuminating the struggle of the individual to craft a life of relevance and meaning despite the bludgeoning harshness of global and political realities.

The show has been created over the past seven years, alongside American history as it happened — the invasion of Iraq, the concerns about "Homeland Security" post 9/11, the 2004 elections — I consider my show a sort of "living history," a theater-as-reportage of what Americans have experienced and endured.

FringeNYC is the most exciting theater festival in the country, it is an honor to be a part of it, and I want to give NY theater audiences a timely, raucous, and truthful show.

Tim Collins, writer/actor