It starts with the sound of a spoon scraping against glass and the wet noise of lips smacking together. June and Lurie have a haunting new houseguest – and she’s ravenously hungry. They do their best to keep her fed and happy, but Beatrice always demands more. As she burrows deeper and deeper into their lives, the couple faces a horrific question: What will it cost to exorcise Beatrice forever?

Kirsten Greenidge's spine-chilling gothic tale, about a contemporary Black couple haunted by the ghost of a young white girl, deftly explores questions of race, class and the American Dream.

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REVIEWS:

"A piercing, graphic and haunting illustration of one couple’s attempt to assimilate and achieve their idea of the American dream at all costs."

 St. Louis American

"Fascinatingly offbeat... Greenidge succeeds in weaving a tapestry that’s as hilarious as it is haunting... it’s unquestionably a captivating experience."

 Calvin Wilson, St Louis Post-Dispatch

"An arresting and thought-provoking ghost story filled with the specter of racism as well as the supernatural."

 Mark Bretz, Laude News

"This play is a thought-provoking, sobering, but often times laugh-out-loud gothic tale, smartly crafted to work on many complex intellectual levels. Its haunting metaphors explore racism, classism, and the cleanliness/dirtiness of the American Dream."

 Tanya Seale, Broadway World St. Louis

"The play is a piercing, graphic and haunting illustration of one couple’s attempt to assimilate and achieve their idea of the American dream at all costs."

 Kenya Vaughn, St. Louis American

"Plenty of cringe-inducing twists and gripping, edge-of-your-seat moments."

 Richard T. Greene, Talkin' Broadway

"Inventive and new."

 Michelle Kenyon, Snoop's Theatre Thoughts

Premiere Production: Feeding Beatrice premiered in October 2019 at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. Directed by Daniel Bryant, the production featured Lorene Chesley, Nathan James, Ronald Emile and Allison Winn. Feeding Beatrice: A Gothic Tale was first presented as a stage reading during the University of Iowa’s New Works Festival at the University of Iowa in May 2000. It was also presented as a staged reading during the Boston Women On Top Festival in March 2001. It was awarded the Richard Maibaum Award by the University of Iowa in May 2000, as well as second place for the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival’s Lorraine Hansberry Award, and second place for the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival’s Mark David Cohen Award.