This year, Night Fires, the annual winter solstice play about to celebrate its thirty-fifth year, will be a big shout of hope inside a passionate prayer for this beautiful, aching country of ours. With a completely new script and story each year, the theme has always remained the same: that of setting out, at the darkest time of year, on a journey into and through a fruitful darkness in order to arrive at the “light”. And as in our country today, sometimes it is only when the dark is darkest, that countless small, strong, shining pin-points of light begin to show their faces for the first time.

With an eloquent plaiting of song, dance, poetry and prose, the production features music from folk traditions of many lands as well as contemporary folk and classical pieces, recent prose pieces from the times we all are currently swimming in, and dance that - along with the music - brings us always back to moments of utter timelessness in what has been called a “mystery play for our own time."
Dec. 15 8 PM
Dec. 16 4PM and 8 PM
Dec. 17 4 PM.
Pre-show singing begins approximately 20 minutes before each show.
Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, Vt. www. townhalltheater.org

Nov 20, 2024, 11 AM to 12 PM

Nov 21, 2024, 4:30 to 8 PM

Nov 26, 2024, 6 to 9 PM