A Devil Inside

David Lindsey-Abaire’s A Devil Inside tells the story of Mrs. Slater who has waited fourteen long years to tell her son, Gene, the truth. And when he wakes up on his twenty-first birthday, she greets him with the customary banners and good wishes, and then gets to the point. “Your father was murdered. He was stabbed in the back and his feet were lopped off and thrown into a drainage ditch.” Thus begins a hilarious and twisted journey of obsession, revenge and the cost of being human in an increasingly inhumane world. Set in New York’s Lower East Side, this frantic dark comedy satirizes elements of nineteenth-century Russian novels, complete with seizures, hallucinations, a flooding city, nightmares, train wrecks and suicide, all wrapped around a murder mystery with a Rube Goldberg-like plot. Tony Ingram directs.