The Pumpkin Pie Show in “ringside seats”

Featuring stories written by Clay McLeod Chapman, with music written and performed by Michael Hearst and Joshua Camp of One Ring Zero.

Described as “the literary descendent of Edgar Allen Poe” (Time Out NY), playwright/ actor Clay McLeod Chapman’s new work focusses on imprisoned psychopath Wallace Reese as he waits for his execution. In a series of interconnected monologues delivered by different characters, the play explores Reese’s effect on others while in isolation. The show features an artist intent on capturing the serial killer in a portrait and an enterprising prison guard who smuggles inmates’ sperm to lonely women. Ringside Seats also unveils the housewife in charge of Reese’s fan club and the mother who compulsively writes letters to her daughter’s killer. Punctuating its psychologically haunting material with the live music of One Ring Zero, the latest Pumpkin Pie Show bleeds musical, theatrical, and storytelling forms into a compelling genre-bending experience. Collapsing the space between actor and spectator, Chapman splices together a montage of horror, comedy, and pathos with a dose of camp — resulting in a thrilling danse macabre.