A Play about a Curse - Paperback

by Caroline Macon Fleischer (Author)

From the author of the viral phenomenon The Roommate comes a literary horror novel following a young playwright who conjures up a true tragedy through a Machiavellian curse when spurned by her mentor.

Enter COREY, a passionate young nobody, and her professor, MAXINE, an award-winning playwright and living legend of the American theatre. When Maxine shatters Corey's dreams of artistic collaboration after graduation, Corey seeks revenge. At a clairvoyant's den in a violet-lit Dallas strip mall, the young playwright unleashes a life-altering curse on Maxine.

Possessed by dark powers and even darker ambitions, Corey follows Maxine to a prestigious playwriting residency in Chicago where the women become fatally entwined. Through three acts, two interludes, and one curse, Corey pushes her mentor toward theatre's haunted margins, where reality begins to crumble.

Caroline Macon Fleischer's A Play About A Curse reads like an A24 film. Part psychological horror and part theatrical fever dream, Curse shadows a heroine-turned-villain as she confronts the supernatural power struggle between mentor and protéeacute;gé, learning that to achieve our dreams, someone else must suffer a nightmare.

Author Biography

Caroline Macon Fleischer is an author and theatremaker in Chicago. Her first novel, The Roommate, was a Kindle thriller bestseller in the summer of 2022. As a theatremaker, she's worked as a playwright, dramaturg, and director for companies including Lookingglass Theatre Company, Chicago Children's Theatre, and Chicago Dramatists. She is a member of Poems While You Wait, a collective of poets and their typewriters that writes original poetry on demand. She lives with her husband, son, and an assortment of pets. Find her online @caromacon and www.caromacon.com.