←Recommendations of Dead Inside

If you're a theater contemplating BLITHE SPIRIT, set that down and pick this one up instead. DEAD INSIDE by Gwen Tulin is a whip-smart comedy about grief, closure, and living with your ghosts (perhaps in this case more literally than that phrase is to be taken). I had the great pleasure last night of watching a production of this play at Creative Works of Lancaster in Lancaster, PA, starring Tulin herself in the role of LIZA. It was so fun, so human, and took a trippy turn. Great Halloween play!

Dead Inside is at once very funny and also incredibly moving. It explores death from a fantastical point of view and avoids being "about" death at the same time. The characters, despite their metaphysical properties, play honestly and true. This play would be perfect for a young adult (20-something) cast and can be produced a variety of ways. While it would play just fine on a traditional stage, alternative staging options such as in-the-round or other immersive approaches would be great!

This exploration of family is incredibly funny and insightful. The language is tight and the characters complex. For directors who want an audience in laugh and cry and then laugh again.

DEAD INSIDE is a fiercely funny portrayal of a complicated family trying to work through their problems, the main one being that two members of the family are dead but still heavily involved in the others' lives. This engaging, funny, and relatable family is pulled through time and memories as each one tries to find the magic formula for making one another happy, while moving towards the inevitable realization that in order to be whole, at some point, they all have to move on.