←Recommendations of A Spirited Manor - A Victorian Penny Dreadful

This is a fun scary tale, perfect for Halloween reading.

A marvelously funny and mysterious adventure that has such a rich history and plot, we can't turn away! A thrilling ride!

A spooky, funny, non-stop ride of a penny dreadful!! Danley has written not only an expansive and FUN cast of characters, but she fits them into an enticing, well-paced mystery with genuinely surprising twists and turns. Furthermore, it’s rare to read a play with so much adventure in its stage directions. I cannot emphasize enough the endless possibilities for design this play has. You could stage it in hundreds of different ways. And I would be in the audience for each one.

A SPIRITED MANOR is a smart, spooky Victorian thriller with a bunch of great character roles and a wonderfully imaginative approach to staging. Part whodunnit, part romance, part Gothic horror, just as you start to get comfortable all the pieces rearrange and the plot takes you in another unexpected direction. Lots of shivers and lots of fun!

With A SPIRITED MANOR, Danley has created an exemplary addition to a familiar and beloved genre, but with a feminist twist. Infused with horror, humor, and melodrama, what’s really exciting about this script is the unique staging and opportunities for innovative and adventurous design it presents. Perfect for a theatre company looking for a larger-cast production, this play would surely be a hit in October or any time of the year!

A fantastically phantasmal thriller & haunting whodunnit. Everything on these pages drips with ghoulish atmosphere -- from the evocative characters, to the enticing lore, and the deliciously arch gallows humor. The action moves at a tense clip, and boy! there are surprises. So grab some pumpkin-spiced something-or-other and smash that download button: autumn's here, and Danley's brought the spooky.

What fun! With the first line, Danley grabs you by the throat and carries you along on inspired gusts of period specific dialogue that nonetheless crackles with a contemporary spin. And as tightly woven as the plot is, Danley has created a wonderfully blank canvas with which directors, designers, and cast members can have fun turning into their own highly spirited, highly mannered manor.