Ablaze

Real issues facing our community fuel the heat of this intense new play produced by Blue Monkey and developed by award winning local playwright Matt Zebreski and area teenagers. Identity, trust, race, sexuality, and the criminal mind are all put to the test when a group of teens are trapped and must fight for their lives.

The lock on an old gate has been found broken, and with that, teenagers have discovered a cool new hang out—the old abandoned high school on the outskirts of town. Various friends, groups and cliques vie for control over this hip “adultfree” zone. Then one evening they find themselves in the middle of a raging fire. To escape, they jump into a hole in the gymnasium floor. But now they are trapped. They are in the dark. There is no way out. And someone else is down there with them…

Blue Monkey Theater Company is about taking artistic risks, coloring outside the lines and empowering the unique, fresh, fearless voice of the young artist. We’re committed to expanding the vision of what theater for young people is and can be, by creating experiences that are challenging, honest and unforgettable. If you can’t be brave when you’re young, when can you be?