Cavities

by Riley Elton McCarthy

Against the backdrop of 1954's Communist Control Act, community conservative activist and Christian neighbor Sylvia has one goal in mind: get her meek husband Bancroft in control, and have the best looking lawn in the development. In order to keep her household in order, Sylvia hires a gardener groundskeeper in young and handsome Gilbert, who soon discovers that the friendly neighborhood matriarch may have more...

Against the backdrop of 1954's Communist Control Act, community conservative activist and Christian neighbor Sylvia has one goal in mind: get her meek husband Bancroft in control, and have the best looking lawn in the development. In order to keep her household in order, Sylvia hires a gardener groundskeeper in young and handsome Gilbert, who soon discovers that the friendly neighborhood matriarch may have more to her than meets the eye... as does the mysterious pianist she married.​

PART TWO OF THE TEETH TRILOGY.

LENGTH: 100 minutes, 2 acts.

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  • Alexa Rowe: Cavities by Riley Elton McCarthy
    “

    To follow up a play as beautiful as Ivories is a very difficult act to follow when Ivories stands alone so beautifully. Cavities does not require you see or read its sister play, Ivories, and holds its own marvelously. I didn't think it'd be possible for me to love a play that has "strip marbles" as a plot point. I can imagine in a few drafts this play will be as impossibly strong and fulfilling as its knockout first act. This play is going to be something really special and even more horrific.

    To follow up a play as beautiful as Ivories is a very difficult act to follow when Ivories stands alone so beautifully. Cavities does not require you see or read its sister play, Ivories, and holds its own marvelously. I didn't think it'd be possible for me to love a play that has "strip marbles" as a plot point. I can imagine in a few drafts this play will be as impossibly strong and fulfilling as its knockout first act. This play is going to be something really special and even more horrific.

    ”