Play With MatchesIn the belly of a boiler room on Blake Street, Ebenezer Beecher snaps.
A Halloween drama about inventor Ebenezer Beecher, industrial progress, and the cost of bringing fire to mass production.
The show reached from Beecher's 1852 matchstick breakthrough into later eras of demolition, memory, and the hidden lives attached to New Haven industry.
Ebenezer Beecher's Match Factory
Ebenezer Beecher invents the automated matchstick machine in New Haven, founding the Diamond Match Company.
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Ebenezer Beecher invents the automated matchstick machine in New Haven, founding the Diamond Match Company.
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View all coverage →Preview coverage of Play With Matches in the Blake Street boiler room and its Ebenezer Beecher match-factory history.
Broken Umbrella takes us to a boiler room for its Halloween show
“A Broken Umbrella Theatre is noted for developing original works to stage in unlikely and/or inspiring places and, with the set and setting in Play With Matches they've made a striking match.”
New Haven Review on Play With Matches
“Play With Matches scores with solid preparation, elegant presentation, awesome ambience, ambitious scripting and audacious acting.”
New Haven Theater Jerk review of Play With Matches
