In The Watch-Fires

Within a modern office building in a war-torn landscape, a lowly tech-worker is tasked with creating a new tome meant to bring the world together, causing a higher-up middle-manager to second guess her government’s motives, ideals and ever-growing militaristic control. A bold combination of new writing from award-winning A Red Orchid Theatre ensemble member Brett Neveu combined with adapted public domain material from the past millennia, IN THE WATCH-FIRES is inspired by the heightened theatricality of Bertolt Brecht, the absurdity of Sam Beckett, and the voices, strengths and legacy of Paul Sills’ Chicago Story Theatre.