←Recommendations of A Spirited Manor - A Victorian Penny Dreadful

Kate Danley has created a theatrical multi-dimensional gothic play that is fun to read, to stage and to watch. Both character and plot driven, A Spirited Manor allows the cast and director/designers to jump into Danley's Victorian America - complete with ghosts, demons and a meet-cute! This is a good mystery/thriller and stage horror. Love this play.

Marvelous Victorian world-building, fun characters and a séance. What more do you need? Oh, and a mystery and a ghost story and... Danley will take an audience on quite a ride. Brava!

Dark, spooky, and full of emotion, this play captures the Victorian gothic literature so well you'd think it was taken from a real penny dreadful. But this original piece would be perfect for any modern theatre looking for something for the scary season. Please consider this for an October run, preferably near me!

HOLY CRAP. I LOVE THIS SO MUCH. Hilarious, dark, and dripping with everything I love. I want to see the amazing puppet fight at the end. I want to see it all! Amazing work.

This wonderful penny dreadful play is far from dreadful! It is a delight! Funny, dark, Victorian-y. A pitch perfect grim tale brimming with vibrant theatricality. Any theater would be smart to add it to their season, especially around Halloween!

A penny dreadful that would be a delight to stage with the ghosts, monsters, and supernatural. A fun play for the Halloween season.

A mystery filled with all things dark, morbid and supernatural. The Victorian setting both sets the tone for a classic ghost story, and lends itself to a number of shocking and ghoulish surprises. Contained within is a nightmarish reflection on the impact of death and those left behind, as well as an epic tale of blood and murder.

Balancing horror and humor is a tough task, and yet playwright Danley manages both. The innovative shifting set, creative use of lighting and theatrical devices, and the ratcheting tension of the terror are all lessons one can learn from this play. A fantastic and entertaining piece!

What a fun ride! All the way through, this play kept me guessing. Kate Danley plays with the Victorian novel's supernatural obsessions and makes them glow with new life and wickedly subversive fire.

As an unabashed fan of the Penny Dreadful I can't recommend this play enough! Danley has a marvelous talent painting pictures with words(both in the dialogue and stage directions), and the play as a whole is a designer and director's dream!