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Veronica's Room

  • Ira Levin
  • Full Length Play, Mystery/Thriller, Drama, Contemporary
  • 2M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573016905

"Like being trapped in someone else's nightmare...jarring and (with a) surprising climax...a neat, elegant thriller."

Village Voice

  • Full Length Play
  • Mystery/Thriller, Drama

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, Professional Theatre
This chilling mystery thriller by the author of Rosemary's Baby explores the thin line between fantasy and reality, madness and murder. Students Susan and Larry find themselves as guests enticed to the Brabissant mansion by it's dissolute caretakers the lonely Mackeys. 

Struck by Susan's strong resemblance to Veronica Brabissant, long-dead daughter of the family for whom they work, the older couple gradually induce her to impersonate Veronica briefly to solace the only living Brabissant, her addled sister who believes Veronica alive. Once dressed in Veronica's clothes, Susan finds herself locked in the role and locked in Veronica's room. Or is she Veronica, in 1935, pretending to be an imaginary Susan?

REVIEWS:

"Like being trapped in someone else's nightmare... jarring and (with a) surprising climax... a neat, elegant thriller."

 Village Voice

Premiere Production: Veronica's Room was first presented on October 25, 1973, by Morton Gottlieb at The Music Box Theatre in New York City.
  • Casting: 2M, 2F

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    This chilling mystery thriller by the author of Rosemary's Baby explores the thin line between fantasy and reality, madness and murder. Students Susan and Larry find themselves as guests enticed to the Brabissant mansion by it's dissolute caretakers the lonely Mackeys. 

    Struck by Susan's strong resemblance to Veronica Brabissant, long-dead daughter of the family for whom they work, the older couple gradually induce her to impersonate Veronica briefly to solace the only living Brabissant, her addled sister who believes Veronica alive. Once dressed in Veronica's clothes, Susan finds herself locked in the role and locked in Veronica's room. Or is she Veronica, in 1935, pretending to be an imaginary Susan?

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