Burn by John Muggleton
Psychological Thriller
100 minutes; no intermission (optional with permission)
4 characters (2 m, 2 f)
2 minor characters in voice over
Long-time friends Robert, Samira and David have gathered after the death of a close friend, Paul, a famed horror writer. Paul had also been very close friends with Robert’s wife, Tara, another horror novelist who disappeared five years earlier. Robert has never given up hope that Tara is alive.
The three friends are awaiting the arrival of a woman named Eve., Paul's estranged daughter. Apparently Paul had asked Eve to carry out one last wish – deliver a mysterious package to his three friends.
Eve arrives. She is young and friendly but there is something decidedly unsettling about her. The close-knit group welcomes her in and they reminisce about her father and the ghost stories they used to share. Wine flows, and Eve decides to tell a ghost story of her own. The mood changes as disturbing private details are revealed – details that may have something to do with Tara’s disappearance.
Then a series of twists take place that has the audience on the edge of their seats.
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A festival version (55min) of Burn is available
Gladstone Theatre, 2018
Ottawa Little Theatre 2022.
Playwright
"Burn is a highly suspenseful ghost story that holds you in its fiery grip right up until the final moments”
- Onstage Ottawa
JOHN MUGGLETON
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Scotland, UK
August 2022
Centre Wakefield la Peche
Wakefield, Quebec
July 2022
Ottawa Little Theatre
Ottawa, Ontario
May 4 - 22, 2022
Pasadena Little Theatre
Houston, Texas
Oct. 15 - 31, 2021
Breakaleg Productions
Barnsley, Yorkshire, UK
March, 2022
South Simcoe Theatre
Ontario
March 5th - 22nd, 2022
Vagabond Theatre
Cornwall, Ontario
April 2020 (postponed)
Curtain Club Theatre
Richmond Hill, Ontario
Jan/Feb 2020
Sawmill Playhouse
Dartmouth, N.S.
February 2019
Tsawwassen Arts Centre
Vancouver, B.C.
September 2018
The Gladstone
Ottawa, Ontario
August 17 - 26, 2017
The Avalon Studio
Ottawa, Ontario
August 2016
Nov/Dec 2016
Copyright © John Muggleton.