Event

Bonfire Series 2015

Presented each July, the Bonfire Series is the culminating event of the PlayLab. In this two-week play-reading festival, Pipeline premieres all eight full-length plays developed over the course of the preceding season.

July 9 @ 7:30PM
The Convent of Pleasure
by Sarah Einspanier | directed by Portia Krieger
Margaret and Katherine are moving? Going back to the earth? Going off the grid? Singing kumbaya? They're not sure what to call it. A play about pleasure, survival, how to kill ants, and how to live in nature.

July 10 @ 7:30PM
Untitled Time Dilation Play
by Colby Day | directed by Stephanie Ward
The Big Bang. A lot happens. Entropy brings the universe to rest. Lights out.

July 11 @ 7:30PM
Hiding in Sanity: A Tragicomedy
by Rachel Music
Inside the underfunded walls of Arkham, an ambitious new doctor sets her sights on its most notorious patient, and develops a dangerously new sense of humor.

July 12 @ 7:00PM
Nostalgia is a Mild Form of Grief
by Jerry Lieblich | directed by Lee Sunday Evans
Katie, a photographer, goes home to look at some baby pictures. It's time for Robert to meet Mom.

July 16 @ 7:30PM
Proximity
by Jeremy Wine | directed by Kel Haney
An underground inventor has to choose between her invention, her fantasy life with Nikola Tesla, ending a war, and a great massage from a sandwich delivery guy.

July 17 @ 7:30PM
Let Me Be Frank
by Salty Brine | directed by Jesse Thurston
An average, small-town, American, high school sex ed-class is hijacked when a recently-fired teacher goes rogue.

July 18 @ 7:30PM
Pilgrims
by Claire Kiechel | directed by Stefanie Abel Horowitz
On a ship to colonize a newly discovered planet, a soldier and a teenage girl find themselves quarantined together in a cabin and are forced to explore their own traumatic pasts and roles in a dying society.

July 19 @ 7:00PM
Serpent in Quicksilver
by Adam Fried
A magician and his daughter reenact a trauma from their past, nightly on stage, while embarking with a new apprentice on a quest for atonement through the power of art.