"???Although ???The Magic Fire??? is a memory play, at the heart of it is the challenge we face as human beings of remembering the past as more beautiful and perfect an ideal as it really was,??? said director Lee Merrill, who previously staged WSU???s ???The Miracle Worker??? and ???Little Women.??? ???It???s easy for us to focus on nostalgia, regret, disappointment or other things that pull us ou" . . . . .