C A M P F I R E S T O R I E S

 

Up next at the Atlanta Fringe Festival May 30-June 7th!

Get your tickets now!

Up next at the Atlanta Fringe Festival May 30-June 7th! Get your tickets now!

 

“Mulitalented Murri Lazaroff-Babin create[s] an absorbing story of his conflicted feelings about his lost home… [a] captivating performance and impressive range”

—Linda Ferguson, Oregon ArtsWatch

This story centers around a rural region and its community in Northern California, called Concow. This town was decimated by the California wildfire known as the Camp Fire in 2018. Concow has been an impoverished community both before and after the fire. Some people live on generators, some don’t have septic systems, some camp out and take shelter in hand-me-down trailers. Chainsaws, bonfires, and rooster crows are the constant sensorial background. Local hitchhikers, toothless grins, and the scent of a showerless week are all part of the culture. This story explores the lives, characteristics, and routines of these people, told through the innocent eyes of a child. It examines how an upbringing surrounded by illegal marijuana grows, gruff mountain veterans, and total wilderness can just seem normal as a kid.

The very early stages of what would become Camp Fire Stories began in 2022, while taking a solo performance class. In the process of creating various characters and short bits I noticed certain elements began to emerge: shadows, repetition, off-beat/dark humor, the abstract paired with linear storytelling, how we involve an audience, what we reveal to an audience, and of course, leaves!