FIREHOUSE NEW PLAYS

Pop-up Premieres serve as the next step for a play following a reading and script development, in which the creative team can explore ideas on their feet. After two weeks of rehearsal, select scenes are memorized and staged, and production support is added.

Join us and be a vital test audience for a creative team’s pre-production process.

The Bell Lyre
by K. Jenkins
Directed by Mark Lerman
February 14-15, 2025

In the not-so-distant future, on a floodplain nearby, a family struggles to fit a lifetime of memories into seven boxes. In the world of the play, musical instruments are constructed from broken clocks and wallboards, pies are baked from forgotten apples, and shields are donned to catch bullets. The Bell Lyre summons everyday disquiet, lost love, digital barrenness, and Alzheimer’s miracles.