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Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 2w, 2m
Peter Colley
In this spine-tingling comedic thriller, a young husband and wife encounter a spate of frightening events in an old country farmhouse. Peter Colley’s tremendously successful suspense play is filled with witty dialogue, huge laughs and heart-thumping scares.
Jan is a young wife recovering from a nervous disorder. She and her husband Greg rent a remote cabin from an odd farmer who delights in telling gruesome ghost stories. Then Greg’s strange sister Laura arrives, and all manner of frightening events occur. What happens to fragile Jan as bodies appear and disappear gives this classic thriller its tremendously frightening impact. The most successful play ever staged in Canada, I’ll Be Back Before Midnight has been performed in over 31 countries and was adapted into a major motion picture.
A large old farmhouse in the country. The present or recent past.
“More spine-tingling than Deathtrap. My ears still ring from the screams of the girls behind me.” – The Toronto Sun
“A first-rate thriller.” – London Free Press
“Peter Colley’s roller-coaster play contains the kind of stomach-dropping twists that will make you hoot with laughter even as you clutch your theater companion’s sleeve.There's something scratching at the window behind those dusty draperies, and finding out what horror lurks is all part of this entertaining production’s fun.’ – Los Angeles Times
“No amount of praise seems excessive... you’ll either be shivering in your seat or rolling out of it with laughter.” – New York Theatre Voice
“This suspense-filled play is likely to be the season’s most entertaining production.” – London Gazette
“Wonderfully spooky... somewhere between an Agatha Christie mystery and a Hitchcock thriller. Peter Colley sends up the haunted house bit with witty dialogue and at the next moment interrupts the audience’s laughter with a good, heart-thumping scare... a really good ghost story.” – Toronto Globe and Mail
“Leave a lot of lights on at home after you see this play.” – CBS Radio
I’ll Be Back Before Midnight – Scene on 7
I’ll Be Back Before Midnight – St. Jacob Country Playhouse Trailer
by Kirsten Greenidge
Kirsten Greenidge
Agatha Christie