Horror Plays

A Note on Producing These Plays of Supernatural Horror:

There are moments of physical violence in all of the plays (The Margins even requires some use of blood effects), but in essence these are psychological horror plays.  They deal with the darkest corners of the human mind and heart, and so they require actors and directors who are daring and committed and absolutely unflinching in their willingness to look into those corners.  If you have these things, then by all means take up the challenge.  You’ll have a production that will (if past experience is any guide) draw in a sizable audience and terrify them out of their skins.  If you don’t have those kind of actors and directors, then all of the most brilliant gore effects in the world won’t save you.  Your production won’t be scary, and a horror production that isn’t scary is like a comedy production that isn’t funny.

 

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SYNOPSES: 

Dark North (approx. 55 min.):

3 men, four women 

Television psychic Daniel Dark North has made a lucrative career out of communing with the dead.  But one day, in the bowels of a crumbling Connecticut mansion, he discovers that sometimes the dead and gone really ought to stay that way…

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The Margins (approx. 1 hr.):

4 men, 2 women 

Building on a 1970s experiment, a group of powerful psychics gather to try to create an artificial ghost.  It should be a simple, harmless experiment.  But someone, or something, has a different agenda.

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Hungry Jane (approx. 15 min.):

1 man, 1 woman 

When a woman is tortured by the malevolent ghost of a young girl, she brings her ghost-hunting ex-lover in to help her end the problem.  But their problems are just beginning…

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Starla (approx. 30 min.):

1 man, 1 woman 

Dr. Trevor Hearns has a perfect evening planned: a scary abandoned theatre, a nubile coed in need of his tutelage and comfort.  What could possibly go wrong?