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Cost of Indulgence: A Circus Fire Review
TheaterWorks Hartford travels back in time with this chilling World Premiere production of Circus Fire, a play written by Hartford-based playwright Jacques Lamarre in remembrance of the catastrophic Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey fire that claimed the lives of close to 200 and injured hundreds more. This production, showing at the First Company’s Governor’s Foot Guard, is a July 6, 1944 time capsule— a memory of a Hartford summer afternoon gone awry. It pairs the trimmings of war with the trappings of life’s little indulgences, exploring the mysteries surrounding the ordeal.
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