If You Start a Fire

[Be Prepared to Burn]

A Play in Two Acts
by Kevin Kautzman
1F / 1M +1? * 73pg
© 2011

* Upcoming Premiere *
The New Theatre Project
Ypsilanti, MI
  Prev. Feb 10th & 11th
Show: Feb 17th – Mar 4th

Reviews

A sexy romp through Kautzman’s clever banter and thought-provoking comedy.  If You Start a Fire… explores issues unique to the 21st Century, with themes as old as the Greek story of Pandora’s Box… Ultimately, If You Start a Fire is a clever look at an intriguing question: what becomes of intimacy in a world where human relationships are increasingly defined in the virtual, digital space?
-  Patty Nolan, Detroit Examiner

Synopsis

An Internet sex comedy for the Recession Generation.

Lucy and Chris are typical American twenty-somethings struggling to survive the Great Recession with their dignity intact.  They hate their jobs like most everybody else, but they need the insurance, and at least they have each other.  Right?  When Chris loses his job, he convinces Lucy they should launch a boutique sex website and sell the idea of her as an all-American girl next door, somehow both pure and hedonistic at the same time…

Development

> IF YOU START A FIRE [BE PREPARED TO BURN] was written with the support of a 2009-10 Jerome Fellowship from the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis.

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