Posted: 12/14/25 at 8:11pm
I wish I could remember why I found it so suspenseful, but I was barely a teenager when I saw Robert Marasco's Child's Play so I don't. But I remember that it was and I'm sorry it's essentially been forgotten.
Posted: 12/14/25 at 8:48pm
I'd add The Humans, by Stephen Karem. It's a grim forced-reunion Thanksgiving play set in a lower Manhattan two-tier basement duplex that manages to make suburban domesticity threatened by an urban environment something palpable. Much goes on, the neighbors are mysterious presence, and yet very little. Adultery is revealed, and mysterious doings happen around the core event. But it created an ominous atmosphere that captured something frightening about such family gatherings.
Posted: 12/15/25 at 7:52am
Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Posted: 12/15/25 at 7:56am
The current Oedipus is up there. Which is impressive considering we know how it ends.
Posted: 12/15/25 at 9:25am
ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "The current Oedipus is up there. Which is impressive considering we know how it ends."
I was about to post the exact same thing!
Posted: 12/15/25 at 11:13pm
Queen of Versailles.. the suspense of seeing if the polite applause can last the duration of the bows.
