Feathers And Teeth
by Charise Castro Smith

Name: Feathers And Teeth
Brand: Charise Castro Smith
SKU: 9780822235538
Rating: 4.04 (24 reviews)

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Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

Unit Set/Multiple SettingsAmerican Mystery Comedy

What readers are saying

Readers have mixed feelings about the play, often describing it as bizarre and unconventional. While some appreciate its potential versatility between genres, others find it perplexing and difficult to connect with.

Unique and unconventional storylineVersatile in genre interpretationAppeals to fans of the weirdCould be too strange for some

Synopsis

Home-sweet-home turns into a haunted house for thirteen-year-old Chris when Carol—her father’s new fiancée—moves in.

Struggling with the recent death of her mother, Chris is convinced Carol is evil, but she just can’t persuade Dad.

When a mysterious, potentially dangerous but kind of cute creature is found in the family’s backyard, Chris assumes it’s a sign from above to eliminate Carol once and for all.

This imaginative, bone-chilling, and wildly funny play brings the notion of dysfunctional family drama to sensationally scary heights.

ThemesDysfunctional families--Drama Dysfunctional families Horror plays PS3619.M5536 F43 2016

Press Reviews

"…unusual and promising…genuinely moving…Smith has drawn such a rich picture of a loving mother and a daughter who simply cannot imagine life without her best friend. That part of this piece is so well constructed and truthful, it only intensifies the horror-genre elements of the play…[In] FEATHERS AND TEETH, you feel both the softness of love and the bite of its loss. …fresh, gutsy and disturbing."
— Chicag Chicago Reader

"Smith proves herself to be a cheeky, subversive playwright with a keen ear for menace and humor. FEATHERS AND TEETH is three things: a send-up of classic family sitcoms such as The Partridge Family and The Brady Bunch…an innovative addition to the horror genre, and a disturbing metaphorical plunge into the scary mind of a teenager who may or may not be on her way to becoming a psychopath…The over-the-top bloodshed is hilarious…[until] you’re whiplashed back into the realization that growing up—for all its sitcom-worthy absurdities—can also be genuinely horrifying."
— TheaterMania

"…unusual and promising…genuinely moving…Smith has drawn such a rich picture of a loving mother and a daughter who simply cannot imagine life without her best friend. That part of this piece is so well constructed and truthful, it only intensifies the horror-genre elements of the play…[In] FEATHERS AND TEETH, you feel both the softness of love and the bite of its loss. …fresh, gutsy and disturbing."
— Chicag Chicago Reader