full-length play produced in 2014 at the Music Box and the Bryant-Lake Bowl
based on the early twentieth-century comic strip* by Winsor McCay
A giant mosquito wants to play tag…
A dentist goes spelunking in a woman’s cavernous mouth…
A man is turned into sausages and transported via telegraph…
Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend is surreal comedy, family-friendly but very, very weird. It’s based on one of the earliest newspaper comic strips, and it plays onstage like an animated cartoon.
The premise is simple: At bedtime, a man eats Welsh rarebit – a fried cheese dish – which gives him indigestion, which causes nightmares. Over and over again. And in those nightmares, anything can happen…
cast: 4M, 2F, 1 live keyboard player
* never before, to the best of our knowledge, adapted for the stage
