Horror Play Readthrough

This was an opportunity to hear several of the ten minute ‘horror’ plays that were submitted in our recent competition. The plays were to be set on a ‘black’ stage (no or very limited props).

We welcomed local actors from the Burnham Amateur Dramatic Society and two ex-members of a Windsor Theatre group. Our thanks are very much due to them for their participation. We also finally managed to make good use of the stage area at our current venue.

The plays performed were as follows:.

Nazalee’s play “Cliveden Haunting”, was the story of a romantic weekend that had an extra and, for the man, most unwelcome participant.

Lorraine’s play “Congenital Defects”, was the story of a man helping out a young woman following a car crash. He wanders, unsuspecting, into an Arkansas family whose unusual domestic circumstances become more horrifying by the minute.

Neil’s play, “The Chair”, depicted what seemed to be the job interview from hell. Four people enter the interview room, only one emerges.

Rob’s play, “Scary Play (Draft) Version One (a)” was a surreal piece of theatre in which the actors were unsure why they were appearing and the eerie, threatening, offstage presence of the author kept them in the dark.

Pleasingly, two of the writers had never written plays before - a sign both of the talent in Slough Writers, and the willingness to push people out of their comfort zones.