HAUNTED
An Evening of Terrifying, Touching & Twisted
One-Acts Plays by
George Cameron Grant
Three stories. Three hauntings. Three very different kinds of love.
In HAUNTED, the things that frighten us most aren't always the things hiding in the dark. Sometimes they're the people we love, the memories we can't escape—and the sacrifices we're willing to make for them.
FORECLOSURE
What would YOU sacrifice for those you love?
Faith has spent thirty years learning that anything is possible. But nothing has prepared her for the day she must say goodbye to the home—and the life—she loves.
On a cold winter afternoon, surrounded by moving boxes and memories, Faith confronts an unexpected visitor who isn't particularly interested in excuses. As their conversation unfolds, what initially appears to be the story of a woman losing her home gradually becomes something altogether different.
The truth about Faith, her family and what happened inside that house emerges piece by piece, until one final revelation gives the word foreclosure an entirely new meaning.
FORECLOSURE is a haunting and ultimately moving one-act about family, loss, guilt, sacrifice—and the terrible price we sometimes pay for love.
Samuel French Festival Finalist
Nantucket Festival Finalist
Strawberry Festival Finalist
1F / 4M • Approximately 20 minutes
STAIRWELL
Some places never let go of the people who loved there.
Charlie carries Lucy, his ailing childhood sweetheart, back to the battered tenement stairwell where, decades earlier, they carved their names into the wall and promised each other forever.
For Lucy, it's a final journey to the place where their love began. For Charlie, it's a chance to protect the woman he has loved all his life from a frightening new world neither of them understands.
But as Charlie desperately searches beneath layers of paint for the names they carved as kids, another reality begins to emerge—one that transforms their sentimental homecoming into something far more haunting.
STAIRWELL is a tender, unsettling one-act about enduring love, memory, aging and the things we refuse to surrender—even when everything around us says it's time to let go.
1F; 2M. Running time: Approximately 15 minutes
SACRIFICE
"Like having a 'Twilight Zone' episode on stage.
Expertly written, loved by audiences!"
-John Chatterton, Founder & Executive Producer, MITF, NYC
Romeo was done with Emily. But Emily wasn't through with him.
It’s Prom morning, and Emily has just been dumped. Her boyfriend Mark has traded her in for another girl, then made matters worse by sharing Emily’s furious response with his friends. Hurt, humiliated and carrying a secret of her own, Emily finds herself alone when a handsome young stranger named Romeo enters her life.
He’s charming, cocky and calls himself a magician. A few card tricks and silver dollars later, Romeo thinks he’s found an easy conquest. Emily invites him home, where an approaching storm provides the perfect backdrop for seduction. But there is something about Emily—and her strangely empty house—that Romeo doesn’t understand.
And when he finally discovers the truth, the trick is on him.
SACRIFICE is a darkly comic supernatural horror play about betrayal, guilt, revenge and the terrifying lengths a family will go to protect one of its own. What begins as a familiar tale of teenage heartbreak gradually twists into something far more sinister, building toward a macabre revelation in which love, justice and sacrifice become frighteningly difficult to tell apart.
2F; 5M; flexible ensemble of M&F Teens, as needed. Approximately 30 minutes.