Synopsis

Unwrap Your Candy - An Evening of One-Act Plays

Unwrap Your Candy - An Evening of One-Act Plays $13

Doug Wright

Published by Dramatists Play Service

From the author of Quills comes a deliciously macabre collection of four short plays ...

Alternately chilling and hilarious, Unwrap Your Candy is a delectable evening of bedtime tales for adults guaranteed to keep you awake for nights on end

Inspired in equal parts by Alfred Hitchcock, Roald Dahl and The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Unwrap Your Candy boasts a versatile cast of five and minimal production requirements

Together, the plays examine the danger of being a child, the terror of being an adult and even the perils of being an unsuspecting audience member

Spine-tinglers for the twenty-first century, the collected one acts in Unwrap Your Candy are guaranteed to jolt the senses and stimulate the mind

In the title play, Unwrap Your Candy, five actors portray actual members of the theatre audience and prove far more intriguing than the play they've come to watch(3M, 2F)

In Lot 13 - The Bone Violin, a stunning young violin prodigy skyrockets to international prominence, only to meet a shocking and supernatural fate (3M, 2F)

In Wildwood Park a neurotic real-estate agent shows a house filled with unspeakable secrets to a potential buyer who harbors an almost insatiable thirst for tabloid atrocities (1M, 1F)

And in Baby Talk a woman is unwound when her precocious baby begins to speak early while still inside her womb (3M, 1F)

REVIEWS

"A mischievous and theatrically savvy evening. Engaging and intellectually satisfying ... Mr Wright has a wry and probing interest in the macabre ... a treat to watch!" ~NY Times

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