“A Time To Burn” will start its second run on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. and will play through Sunday at the Players Theatre. Tickets are available at the box office in the Stevens Building weekdays from 12:20 to 4:30 p.m. and are $14 for adults, $8 for senior citizens and $7 for students.

For this production, the Players Theatre stage has been completely transformed into the epitome of a dingy and neglected basement. The plot is centered around its inhabitants and the relationships between them. Director Richard Poole explains in the program, “From this grim setting, the playwright [Charles Mee] works to find something positive about these characters. He finds it not in their individual lives, but in their communality — through ‘love’ rather than the competitive, capitalistic system which is placed against it.”

“I think what makes this show unique is the characters. Every single character is so different,” junior theater major Henry Delcid said of the show.

It’s true — Poole’s director’s notes state every character, with the exception of a married couple, is from a different country or culture. One of the characters, in fact, speaks no English at all.

“They have nothing in common… except this basement, and whatever it does or does not offer by way of a home,” Poole says in the program.

Characters and relationships aside, “A Time To Burn” is special because, as Delcid and junior theater major Charles Gardner divulged, it is the first time a junior year project has been a main-stage production.

“The motivation behind the show is just to educate… to show the differences between people and how no matter how complicated things get, you can all come together and settle problems, and my character [Alejandro] really works toward that,” said Gardner.

“One of the biggest things about the play is that there are people out in the real world that are looking for the exact same thing that the characters are,” Delcid said, “It’s a play about love and life.”