Play With Matches

Where

The Smokestack
446A BlakeSt, New Haven, CT
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When

  • October 21-23, 2011
  • October 28-30, 2011
  • November 4-6, 2011

Fridays: 8pm
Saturdays: 3pm & 7pm
Sundays: 3pm* & 7pm

In the belly of a boiler room on Blake Street, Ebenezer Beecher snaps.

The year is 1888. Or is it?

Play With Matches

This fall, a new Halloween drama called PLAY WITH MATCHES will haunt the old warehouse at 446A Blake Street in Westville.

Researched and developed by A Broken Umbrella Theatre with playwright Jason Patrick Wells and director Ian Alderman, PLAY WITH MATCHES tells the story of the quirky New Haven inventor Ebenezer Beecher, who ignited a spark that would set the world ablaze with his automated matchstick machine. 

Toss aside a matchbook lately? Need to light some birthday candles quickly? Beecher’s Diamond Match Company is the reason you didn’t even have to think twice about how to ignite that flame. This show takes you back to 1852, when a mansion called Blonstone stood where the Mitchell Library is today. Filled with secrets, not yet with books, the building knew that progress has a price.

 

Play With Matches is an original performance conceived by A Broken Umbrella Theatre