Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from April, 2022

Jeffrey Dahmer Onstage

  I just had a play of mine produced about serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer!  It's a docudrama entitled, "Alcohol and Muscle" and, while researching the work, I came across a series of stage plays based on Dahmer.  As such, here's a grotesque grouping of dramatic works with bite! * Apartment 213 by Joseph Ritsch:  This play proves to be a successful attempt to make the Jeffrey Dahmer story feel relevant to today's audiences.  Here, Dahmer is shown as a man cast aside when a paralyzing fear of his own sexuality leaves him unable to connect with others. * The Confessions of Jeffrey Dahmer by Josh Hitchens:  Based on true events, this solo performance puts the audience in a dark basement room alone with one of the most notorious serial killers of the twentieth century. * feeling by Paul Cameron Hardy:  This play doesn't present Dahmer as a monster.  Rather, it shows him as a traveling companion of sorts to a 29-year-old graduate student struggling to stay afloat a