Photo by Pin Lim4th Wall Theatre Company Artistic Director Philip Lehl didn't necessarily think so but after he and his wife Kim Tobin-Lehl sawNow he's bringing the one-act play in a regional premiere to Houston and while he says it isn't a horror play, he believes that many audience members will, like him, leave the theater with a very unsettled feeling thanks to what unfolds.
"But what better kind of play for the dark days of Halloween and fall when the sun deserts the earth?" he adds, laughing., playwright Lucas Hnath raises the question of whether the living can find some way to communicate with the dead. Rolled into this are our fears of death and of the dead, as well as how people may be manipulated.
Also of special note is that set design is by Rec Room's award-winning Stefan Azizi, lighting design by multi-award winner Christina Gianneli, sound design by Robert Leslie Meek and costume and properties design by Samantha Hyman. "It really is a play about story telling — like Irish playwright Conor McPherson telling stories . We hear these stories and it puts us in a kind of a heightened listening mode.