Cold Read Festival of New Plays: Write Here – “The High Cost of Heating”

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In Craig Thornton’s (adjunct professor, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications) hilarious and chilling absurdist play, The High Cost of Heating, a seemingly affluent couple is disturbed by their large heating bill but quickly grow terrified as it starts to physically grow and take over their home. Familiar class issues of work, marriage, and lifestyle are pushed aside as more primal needs — for heat, shelter, and food — take over, in increasingly ridiculous and nightmarish ways. As a crypto-fascist army of marching salami sandwiches breaks into their home, the two are reduced to cawing like crows and feeding off croutons, with only their shared terror in the face of the unknown providing any sort of humanity… or hope.

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