←Recommendations of Unknown Number

TRULY SPOOKY! Who knew a play that offers no real answers could be so completely satisfying? The tiny, specific details throughout tell us everything we need to know about Samantha, casting just enough doubt to make us question her sanity. The slow, creepy escalations were truly chilling. Best of all, as a woman, I didn't need supernatural explanations - we've all been in a situation in which something felt wrong... but not "wrong enough" to be "worthy" of help. That added another layer of terror to the events of the play. This piece is super simple but still profoundly haunting!

Scariest play, I mean SCARIEST play I have ever read.

What starts with a perfectly normal phone conversation between Samantha and her mother is escalated by the introduction of a strange unknown voice. From there the tension escalates beautifully as this unknown caller continue to invade Sam's evening, driving her further into confusion and despair, which the audience join her for. Its a wonderfully tense piece that keeps the audience guessing and offers a wonderful performance opportunity for the actress playing Samantha.

Right from the off the tension builds in true Hitchcock style as poor Samantha is home alone during the worst storm for years, the perfect set up.
Add to this a series of 'prank' calls, wanting her to go outside and the lack of support from the police you have all the ingredients for a truly scary radio play, and with a clever production, an equally scary stage play.
Brilliant!

I had the honor to star in this piece by Mandryk in 2018, and truly still have nightmares about it. The creepy voices on the line, the winter storm, a woman already on the edge. I love a show that makes you question the sanity of the main character. It takes a bit to scare me; this did it. It didn't help that I share a name with the main character, that I live alone and was recently divorced, or that my mom ends our calls with 'I love you, goodnight'... wait. Was this show about me? Greg? GREG?!

I have had the privilege of seeing the first reading of this play, the first few productions of this play and I have to say, THIS is my favorite Greg Mandryk piece. It does creepy right, giving out just enough info to be unsettling, never holding your hand in the dark, but completely guiding you to the bitter end. The horror of it is never explained, which makes it all the more disturbing. I LOVE this piece.