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Something in the Basement

Short Play, Drama  /  1w, 1m

An unusual play, funny and terrifying, about women and men and things that go bump in the night.

Something in the Basement

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    1w, 1m
  • Duration
    Duration
    30 minutes
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

Details

Summary
A young couple moves into an old house where they are troubled by the wife's reluctance to allow the husband to touch her and by her growing insistence that there is something making bizarre noises in the basement. Their fear turns into an obsessive struggle and a strange erotic triangle, the third member of which lurks in the darkness beneath them. An unusual play, funny and terrifying, about women and men and things that go bump in the night.

Published in Something In The Basement & Other Plays.

History
First produced at the University of Iowa in 1979.
Cast Attributes
  • Time Period Present Day
  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
  • Additional Features No intermission
  • Duration 30 minutes
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

Music

  • Musical Style N/A (Not a musical)

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: $65 per performance

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Authors

Don Nigro

Don Nigro is among the most frequently published and widely produced playwrights in the world and has continued to build a deeply interrelated and diverse body of dramatic literature, employing a wide variety of dramatic conventions and styles of presentation. He has written ...

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