Tall Tales
by River Timms
(FULL LENGTH, HORROR/DRAMA, 1.5-2 hours)
[Also! Ending spoilers for ‘burnout.’ in the synopsis for ‘Tall Tales.’]
"What do you want from me?! What did I do?!"
Alabama is equally haunted by Christ and ghosts, and this is a play about both.
After losing his job and breaking up with his boyfriend, Noah is forced to return to his hometown in rural Alabama. He meets his childhood friends to find that his old...
(FULL LENGTH, HORROR/DRAMA, 1.5-2 hours)
[Also! Ending spoilers for ‘burnout.’ in the synopsis for ‘Tall Tales.’]
"What do you want from me?! What did I do?!"
Alabama is equally haunted by Christ and ghosts, and this is a play about both.
After losing his job and breaking up with his boyfriend, Noah is forced to return to his hometown in rural Alabama. He meets his childhood friends to find that his old world has changed dramatically in the eight years that he’s been gone; his tiny town is dying as the city nearby expands, most of his friends are stuck in dead-end jobs that they never wanted, and his first ex-boyfriend has returned to church and is now engaged to a woman. As Noah tries to find his new place in what he tried to leave behind, murders begin to occur, scandals are brought to light, and tragedy strikes in this slow-burn horror play about being othered in the Deep South.
"At once it is a deeply personal introspection of growing up in a sternly religious and judgmental evangelical community in Alabama while it is also a larger-than-life, suspenseful seasonal tale of monsters, murders, and mayhem... there is some smart and snappy dialogue, more than a little humor and some revelations that are off-putting and disquieting." -Jeffery Ellis, Broadway World
“I ALSO enjoyed ‘Night In the Woods.’” -our stage manager’s boyfriend
'Tall Tales' is the sequel to my play 'burnout.' and part two of a two-part series which I lovingly call 'Noah's Arc.' You need not read 'burnout.' to understand this play; they are both whole narratives that recontextualize each other when read as a set.
CW: homophobic slurs
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