FIRE ESCAPE Presented by the Lower East Side Tenement Museum

America-in-Play, a theatre company, creates a new play consisting of scenes, monologues and songs inspired by the real people who endured the fire, those who survived, those who died. These lives collide with a popular iconic fictional character of the same era: Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl, who appeared in newspaper serials and melodramas. She was always rescued: what happen when she encounters the people of the fire? The play is built by a company of playwrights and composer and performed by a company of women in multiple roles.

Playwrights/composer: Rob Hartmann, Laura Henry, Andrea Lepcio, Susan Tennierello, Delora Whitney. Directed by Lynn M. Thomson, founder and artistic director of America-In-Play