The Ninth Annual Hemlock Avenue Barbecue

by Katie Kirk

Corey's just bought a house in the suburbs, ready for a new start. Life's great! Except...Corey's next-door neighbor Adam has been harboring a grudge against his twin brother Thomas, and he'll stop at nothing to achieve retribution. Even if it tears the whole neighborhood apart.

Loosely inspired by Seneca's grisly revenge play Thyestes, The Ninth Annual Hemlock Avenue Barbecue is part dark comedy, part bleak...

Corey's just bought a house in the suburbs, ready for a new start. Life's great! Except...Corey's next-door neighbor Adam has been harboring a grudge against his twin brother Thomas, and he'll stop at nothing to achieve retribution. Even if it tears the whole neighborhood apart.

Loosely inspired by Seneca's grisly revenge play Thyestes, The Ninth Annual Hemlock Avenue Barbecue is part dark comedy, part bleak horror-tragedy—set in the most terrifying place imaginable: modern American suburbia.

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  • Kristi Good: The Ninth Annual Hemlock Avenue Barbecue by Katie Kirk
    “

    This is an exceedingly clever treatment of one of the great mythological tragedies of all time. Kirk brings biting, contemporary wit to these ill-fated characters; I found myself gasping in gleeful horror at this cursed underbelly of American suburbia. You’ll find characters you love and characters you love to hate, and you might never go to another neighborhood picnic as long as you live.

    This is an exceedingly clever treatment of one of the great mythological tragedies of all time. Kirk brings biting, contemporary wit to these ill-fated characters; I found myself gasping in gleeful horror at this cursed underbelly of American suburbia. You’ll find characters you love and characters you love to hate, and you might never go to another neighborhood picnic as long as you live.

    ”