Few plays are able to create real dread to frighten an audience, but Carpenter Gorge manages it in such a unique and insidious way. It's a gut-punch of the trauma of home ownership and financial strain. The unique script formatting heightens the feel of a ghost story and adds urgency to the characters, making their voices seem like whispers in the dark. And the open-ended stage directions-as-pictograms highlights the trust the author has in any creative team bold enough to take on this horror story with a backbone of all too relatable crises.
Few plays are able to create real dread to frighten an audience, but Carpenter Gorge manages it in such a unique and insidious way. It's a gut-punch of the trauma of home ownership and financial strain. The unique script formatting heightens the feel of a ghost story and adds urgency to the characters, making their voices seem like whispers in the dark. And the open-ended stage directions-as-pictograms highlights the trust the author has in any creative team bold enough to take on this horror story with a backbone of all too relatable crises.