Home Fires
By Jack Heifner
Home Fires is a play that needs 8 or more performers (7 women, 1 men). Licensed by Dramatic Publishing.
- Type
- play
- Cast size
- 8 or more performers
- Roles
- 7 women, 1 men
- Cast notes
- 1m., 7w.
- Recommended level
- High school
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- historical
- Licensor
- Dramatic Publishing
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Synopsis
One of only three plays nominated for Best Play of the Year in 1997 by the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, Home Fires is the story of a Texas woman trying to raise her three teenage children during hard times in World War II. After Nettie's husband leaves her, she is forced to take in female boarders to make ends meet. The house is crowded and the eccentric women who stay there are entertaining, lost souls looking for husbands and careers in a world without men. The play examines family, home,
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