Juliana Monk & Dawn Jani Birley in To A Flame | Photo by Elana Emer
To A Flame, produced by 1s1 Theatre and Nightwood Theatre, in association with Modern Times Stage Company and Why Not Theatre, has a palpably eerie atmosphere before it even starts. The pre-show builds intrigue by confronting us with:
A plain wooden table.
A knocked over chair.
The howl of wind.
And three Victorian women (Dawn Jani Birley, Nickeshia Garrick and Juliana Monk) in a state of silent, heightened awareness—of each other, of us, and of some force or circumstance that awaits.
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