The Ninth Annual Hemlock Avenue Barbecue

(3 F, 3 M, 1 NB)

Corey's just bought a house in the suburbs, ready for a new start. Life's great! Except...turns out Corey's next-door neighbor Adam has been harboring a grudge against his twin brother Thomas, and he'll stop at nothing to achieve retribution. Even if it tears the whole neighborhood apart.

Loosely inspired by Seneca's grisly revenge play Thyestes, The Ninth Annual Hemlock Avenue Barbecue is part dark comedy, part bleak horror-tragedy—set in the most terrifying place imaginable: modern American suburbia.

Selection - Athena Project's Read & Rant program, 2025

Staged Reading - Helen Wayne Rauh Theater (Pittsburgh, PA); Carnegie Mellon New Works, 2024

Directed by B Kleymeyer

Cast:

COREY - Levi Chaplin-Loebell

ADAM - Lukas Jarvi

THOMAS - Sondai NaNaBuluku

LINDA - Ash Gelber

SHERYL - EmElise Knapp

TESSA - Maddy Cox

GARY - Nico Zavallos

Sound Design: Ray Morgen

Dramaturgy: Jacey Lozada