Ghosts in the Graveyard

by C. Meaker

Then: Fifty years ago, in the town of Grimdale, the Sleuth Club solved the Mystery of the Haunted Carnival, an achievement that earned each of them jobs and security within Grimdale’s rising-star company, The Factory.

Now: At The Factory retirement party for the remaining Sleuth Club members, their children and grandchildren gather to celebrate. But a loving reenactment of the original mystery uncovers a long...

Then: Fifty years ago, in the town of Grimdale, the Sleuth Club solved the Mystery of the Haunted Carnival, an achievement that earned each of them jobs and security within Grimdale’s rising-star company, The Factory.

Now: At The Factory retirement party for the remaining Sleuth Club members, their children and grandchildren gather to celebrate. But a loving reenactment of the original mystery uncovers a long-buried truth — the Sleuth Club pinned the case on the wrong costumed-villains. The generations must unite to find the truth, grieve what’s been lost, and figure out how to rebuild over toxic sludge.

Ghosts in the Graveyard is a multigenerational play about grief, family, and the terror of capitalism.

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  • Andrew Rosendorf: Ghosts in the Graveyard by C. Meaker
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    A fun, haunting, blast of a play that pays tribute to SCOOBY DOO but also is very much its own thing that is investigating large questions about community culpability -- and our responsibility to each other. It's a play that demands to be staged. So stage it!

    A fun, haunting, blast of a play that pays tribute to SCOOBY DOO but also is very much its own thing that is investigating large questions about community culpability -- and our responsibility to each other. It's a play that demands to be staged. So stage it!

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  • Playwrights Foundation: Ghosts in the Graveyard by C. Meaker
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    The community of National Committee readers for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced GHOSTS IN THE GRAVEYARD as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We highly enjoyed this intergenerational story about love, community responsibility, family healing, and justice told as a fun romp. We were engaged by the play's promise as the younger generation investigates and questions their family's part in a mystery that upholds power structures, leading to reconciliation---but with wild farcical moments too! We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and...

    The community of National Committee readers for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced GHOSTS IN THE GRAVEYARD as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We highly enjoyed this intergenerational story about love, community responsibility, family healing, and justice told as a fun romp. We were engaged by the play's promise as the younger generation investigates and questions their family's part in a mystery that upholds power structures, leading to reconciliation---but with wild farcical moments too! We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in this play’s journey towards production. #BAPF46

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