Crowded Fire’s In-Person Return!

Crowded Fire Theater returns to in-person theatre with the West Coast Premiere of THE DISPLACED by Isaac Gómez, directed by CFT Artistic Director Mina Morita, with Associate Director Karina Gutiérrez, and featuring Jordan Maria Don and Troy Rockett. Crowded Fire will welcome their community of theater lovers back in-person to the Potrero Stage with this visceral, gleeful, terror-filled feast exploring gentrification and displacement.

Marísa and Lev, a couple whose rocky relationship is already clouded by ghosts of the past, are moving into a historic Chicago apartment when a dark and mysterious message appears. Soon, the couple is united in — and divided by — terror, as the previous tenants make their pain known. Gomez’s funny, razor-sharp script questions who is complicit in an act that leaves deep scars on homes and communities.

From Directors Mina Morita and Karina Gutiérrez, “There’s this feeling when you’re able to lose yourself in a horror show, your adrenaline pumping and breathless laughter shaking loose. We keep talking about how this play is a feast, a gleeful, terror-filled, feast for the senses. We could not imagine a better way to come back to live theater, to get our hearts pumping in unison again in response to what’s up on stage. At the same time, the themes of displacement and gentrification are still very much present in the Bay area. Every media-frenzied ‘exodus from San Francisco!!’ that we’ve seen in our lifetime ends up feeling like a gold rush, with outsiders swooping in to snap up the best house and apartment deals they can find. For those of us still trying to hang on, despite diminished employment opportunities — or for those of us swooping in, trying to make the most of the moment — this show’s themes are going to be important to talk about right now.”

For more information or to reserve tickets, visit http://www.crowdedfire.org/displaced/.