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Puppets in the Hands of a Malevolent GOd
​by Michael K Potter

October 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 24, 25 & 26, 2025 @ 8:00 pm @ The Shadowbox Theatre
Celebrate the spooky season with two bone-chilling tales of horror brought to you by Post Productions at The Shadowbox Theatre . . . if you dare!

Post Productions is poised to resurrect the disturbingly satisfying horror genre of Grand Guignol, which ruled France’s theatre scene for decades. Puppets in the Hands of a Malevolent God is a double-bill of spine-tingling one-act plays designed to elicit new insights by delving into the deepest recesses of human terror and discomfort -- intertwining psychological horror, body horror, supernatural horror, sociopolitical horror, and existential horror. You can count on Puppets in the Hands of a Malevolent God to stir your emotions in the most raw and visceral manner possible while inspiring you to think about the pressing problems of our time through the incisive probing of ancient human taboos.

Puppets in the Hands of a Malevolent God offers two frightening plays for the price of one! In The Cuckoo Birds, Lucy, a young woman fleeing domestic violence seeks safety in a women’s crisis shelter. As secrets about her life gradually spill out of her, they unexpectedly resonate with the primordial beliefs of other women in the shelter – until Lucy fears that her haven may be her undoing . . . a ghastly trap from which she cannot escape. The second play, Mothers of Nothing, focuses on a group of mothers who gather in their parish church for a funeral reception following the untimely death of one of their sons. When violence erupts amongst the altar boys, and the priest is unable to help, the mothers are forced to confront truths that not only contradict their deepest beliefs but threaten their maternal identities.

The Cuckoo Birds
CHANTEL PARÉ as Lucy Crowe
ARCHER BENNETT as The Cripple
RACHEL HILLIS as The Foreigner
CHERI SCRATCH as Ms. Calhoun
CAMRYN S. KINGSLEY as Robin
COURTESY OLYMPIA LEBERT-DEAN as Annie-Frid
MICHAEL K. POTTER as Dr. Frederickson
 
Mothers of Nothing
GABRIEL ROBINSON as Dominic Pascal
MARCUS REAUME as Emmitt Huxley
ARCHER BENNETT as Claire Pascal
RACHEL HILLIS as Elizabeth Huxley
COURTESY OLYMPIA LEBERT-DEAN as Chantal De Lubac
CHANTEL PARÉ as Penelope Erasmus
CAMRYN S. KINGSLEY as Margaret Anscomb
CHERI SCRATCH as Birgitte Rahner
MICHAEL K. POTTER as Father Gavin
 
CREW
Playwright: Michael K. Potter
Directors: Michael K. Potter & Fay Lynn
Producers: Fay Lynn & Michael K. Potter
Stage Manager: Fay Lynn
Assistant Stage Manager: Rochelle Emery-Luckett
Set Designer: Fay Lynn
Set & Prop Builders/Painters: Fay Lynn, Archer Bennett, & Kieran Potter
Composer: Shane Trowbridge
Special Effects Artist: Mitchell Branget
Costumer & Makeup Artist: Archer Bennett
Lighting & Sound Designer: Michael K. Potter
Lighting & Sound Operator: Kieran Potter
Promotional Photographer: Anthony Sheardown Photography
Poster & Program Designer: Kris Simic
Promoter: Michael K. Potter
 
Puppets in the Hands of a Malevolent God is brought to you by Post Productions in association with New Way Media Productions at The Shadowbox Theatre.
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