Come Back Right

by Aly Kantor

[10 minutes, comedic horror, 2F] Variations on your girlfriend's resurrection.

[10 minutes, comedic horror, 2F] Variations on your girlfriend's resurrection.

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Come Back Right

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  • Greg Mandryk: Come Back Right

    Aly Kantor stitches together humor, horror, hope, and tragedy into the highly engaging Come Back Right. The protagonist’s determination to save her dead girlfriend causes her to turn a blind eye to the warning signs that nature shouldn’t be meddled with and sometimes people don’t want to be saved. Dark and beautiful. I loved it!

    Aly Kantor stitches together humor, horror, hope, and tragedy into the highly engaging Come Back Right. The protagonist’s determination to save her dead girlfriend causes her to turn a blind eye to the warning signs that nature shouldn’t be meddled with and sometimes people don’t want to be saved. Dark and beautiful. I loved it!

  • E.M. Lark: Come Back Right

    Call me biased as a noted Frankenstein lover (if you must), but Kantor truly captures the horror of what it means to do anything it takes for love (for love, for a second chance, for guilt). "Come Back Right" is morbidly funny, sharp, brutal and bleedingly vulnerable from one viginette to the next about the variations on resurrection. There's no one way to get it right, and that may be the most painful part. Dying (hah!) to see this put on over and over again.

    Call me biased as a noted Frankenstein lover (if you must), but Kantor truly captures the horror of what it means to do anything it takes for love (for love, for a second chance, for guilt). "Come Back Right" is morbidly funny, sharp, brutal and bleedingly vulnerable from one viginette to the next about the variations on resurrection. There's no one way to get it right, and that may be the most painful part. Dying (hah!) to see this put on over and over again.

  • Charles Scott Jones: Come Back Right

    Somebody reanimated on the wrong side of the bed - in the early going of Aly Kantor’s fantastic short horror play COME BACK RIGHT - and then things get deep, complex, amazing. I really admire the use of repetition with variation - how each plot segment is more fascinating than the one before - creating a sense of anticipatory delight that I seldom ever feel in a short play. Tremendous work! Compares well with one of my favorite short plays: The Death of Trotsky by David Ives. Thank you so much for writing this gem!

    Somebody reanimated on the wrong side of the bed - in the early going of Aly Kantor’s fantastic short horror play COME BACK RIGHT - and then things get deep, complex, amazing. I really admire the use of repetition with variation - how each plot segment is more fascinating than the one before - creating a sense of anticipatory delight that I seldom ever feel in a short play. Tremendous work! Compares well with one of my favorite short plays: The Death of Trotsky by David Ives. Thank you so much for writing this gem!

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Character Information

  • THE BODY
    a corpse, then an ex-corpse, then…?
    Character Gender Identity
    She/her
  • THE RESURRECTOR
    Ostensibly, some sort of mad scientist.
    Character Gender Identity
    She/her

Production History

  • Type Community Theater, Organization South Shore Theater Experience, Year 2024
  • Type Workshop, Organization Outta Bounds Productions, Year 2023