One-line definition
Fire play uses flame, heat, and fire’s visual menace as sensory stimulus, and is a high-risk category.
Full definition
Fire’s power in a scene is double: the heat on the skin, and the older, deeper alarm the sight of flame triggers in everyone watching. That theatre is why it turns up in performance contexts, and the same flame is why this category’s accidents are genuine emergencies rather than bruises.
Risk reminder
Fire play can cause burns, ignite materials, and escalate into real fires. This archive provides no materials lists, steps, or instruction of any kind.
Related terms
- Wax Play
- Fear Play
- RACK
- Hard Limit