Dread Awakening
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Opened Apr 6, 2006
Closed Apr 23, 2006
1hr. 30min.
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Dread Awakening brings together four of theater's most exciting young playwrights -- Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Clay McLeod Chapman, Eric Sanders, and Justin Swain -- and pairs them up with directors Arin Arbus, Amanda Charlton, Jessica Davis-Irons, and Pat Diamond. Bound by their shared love of the macabre and the supernatural, these up-and-coming artists came together to present their unique styles and approaches towards conveying onstage the horror of the known... and the unknown. In these four new plays, you will meet a boyfriend who refuses to reveal his true face, a dead best friend who won't stay dead, a professional who grows unnaturally obsessed with his client, and a young couple experiencing horrific events in a car on a deserted highway.
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Alfred Hitchcock has been quoted as having said, "There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it." The master of film suspense demonstrated this phenomenon many times, but theater directors cannot control what the audience sees in the same way, and that has presented an interesting challenge for the creators of Dread Awakening. These four short horror plays, programmed together in a show with a total running time of about an hour, are mostly entertaining but not all of them quicken our pulses.
The opener, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Bloody Mary, comes closest to earning its gasps as well as its laughs. We see two sexually curious college kids driving on an abandoned highway to Sh[...]