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Readings From Asbury Park

Wildfire Season

a new play

by

Julie Marino

All readings are FREE and held at the

THE SHOWROOM

708 Cookman Ave.

Asbury Park, NJ

Committed political activist Janel Lofton saw the meaning drain out of her life and the life drain out of her marriage when her son Jordan – a relief worker in a war-torn African country – was murdered by rebel troops. Now it’s three years later and she’s trying to get her life back together, but it’s a path filled with obstacles. Her kitchen renovation stalls out when the builder vanishes halfway through the job. Hannah, her best friend and protègè, keeps trying to pull her back into the movement. And the now-former rebel leader responsible for Jordan’s death is back in the news again, this time as the newly-elected president of his country. The arrival of Travis, the replacement contractor, upsets the fragile equilibrium among Janel, Hannah and Hannah’s boyfriend Harte. Affections and loyalties are pulled and scrambled as Janel drifts closer to Travis but away from her friends and her past. Meanwhile as Harte and Hannah try to tackle the world’s problems, they’re feeling the friction at home. And as Janel tries to find her way through the tangle of sex, love, politics and the metaphysics of picking the right countertops, those infamous California wildfires keep cropping up closer and closer to her home and the threat of evacuation looms.

This event is not to be missed!!