April 7, 2016 - The Center High School Theatre Department invites you to see the Advanced Players presentation of Jack Heifner's Home Fires on Thursday April 21 and Saturday April 23 on the CHS Stage.
Home Fires is the story of an East Texas family during World War II who try to make ends meet with their boarding house. Their boarders are mostly women, trying to keep the "home fires burning" while the men are away at war. The house full of extended family shares laughs, love and heart ache.
The author Jack Heifner is a Tony Award winning writer whose Vanities is still the longest running off-Broadway play in history. The New York playwright has Texas roots and spends one semester every other year as playwright-in-residence at Stephen F Austin's school of theatre. In fact, Home Fires had its debut performance at SFA ten years ago.
The play is set in the living room of the boarding house, and to take viewers "inside the house," the audience will sit on stage, close to the action. In this arrangement, the venue will hold 60 people.
The Thursday show will begin at 6:30 with box office opening at 5:45. Admission is $5 for all guests.
The Saturday show is a dinner theatre performance with an old fashioned southern dinner served at 6:00 to 6:30 with the cast serving the tables. The show will begin after dinner at 7:00. Admission for Saturday is $10 for dinner and the play. Sixty diners will be seated and served. For reservations, send e-mails to christopher.watlington@centerisd.org or text 936-332-3255. Tickets will be sold at the door but again, only the first 60 diners will be seated.
