Set in a community center, revolutionaries of an abstract New Age movement stew over life's meaning and purpose.

A dark secret begins to reemerge, causing the members to seek aggressive liberation. While philosophical rhetoric builds upon itself, the members continue to seek emancipation from the troubles of contemporary life by conducting a series of lessons and tests, which they broadcast on-line. As these rituals collide in celebratory chaos, a higher community is formed through dance, initiation rites and radical apocalyptic anarchy.

FIVE SMALL FIRES was created with Poor Dog Group and commissioned by Experimental Media Performing Arts Center & The Getty Villa Lab Theater. Project support from: 2013 Creative Capital Award, University of California Los Angeles Department of World Cultures, Center for Cultural Innovation ARC Program, and YADDO. Five Small Fires was originally produced at the Bootleg Theater. 

“Five Small Fires – Best of 2014” – Anthony Byrnes, KCRW