The Firehouse Theatre in Richmond, Virginia, in partnership with the Mighty Pen Project and the Virginia War Memorial Foundation, is producing War in Pieces, a festival of new short plays written by Veterans, capturing their experiences in and out of uniform.

The War in Pieces new play festival is an annual event sponsored by the Virginia War Memorial Foundation as an extension of the Mighty Pen Project. The MPP is a multi-faceted writing program for military veterans and their spouses, to help them learn how to express their own powerful stories through the medium of the written word. In the War in Pieces program, Veterans pen four new short plays which are professionally developed, rehearsed, and publicly performed. Firehouse Theatre once again serves as the producing partner, bringing these vital stories to life onstage.

The Plays:

A Couch by Cam Torrens 
An Air Force officer pushes to be in the first wave of responders to the 9/11 attack, but his wife - who outranks him - has different ideas.

Kaho’olawe by Harry Meyer 
On a small Hawaiian island once used for bombing practice, an unexploded bomb must be defused, but it isn’t going to go down quietly.

Cao by Larry Meier 
An Army captain accompanies the flag-draped remains of a fallen soldier from Vietnam home to the remote coalfields of Virginia.

War’s Teeth by Shani Miller 
A young mother, home from deployment in Afghanistan, thanks a Vietnam vet for his service, unleashing for them both memory and healing.