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THE THING AT RARITAN LANDING:The Thing meets The Crucible. Terminator meets Turn. First contact. Last stand. The future is history.

Centuries before a cylindrical spacecraft famously crashed on a farm in Grovers Mill, something horrific hurtled to a field in central New Netherland. A shape-shifting alien with a gruesome life-cycle. A time-traveling hero from beyond the stars. A test of humanity in the town church. And a shocking denoument that will leave you breathless. The X Files has nothing on this 18th century tale of alien invasion. But these Men In Black wear capotains and doublets not business suits. Join the Puritan villagers as they track this outer space invader before it kills again! It could be any one of them. It might be the cobbler, the gunsmith, the wheelwright. It might be you! Whose blood will crawl from the hot needle, so to speak? Find out, my friends! And trust no one!

THE WOLF OF WASHINGTON FORGE: If men with moustaches make history, what do men completely covered in hair do?

 Join Samuel Quill, Continental deserter and hunter-for-hire, as he tracks the titular wolf to a small river-town in Raritan Valley, where he reveals George Washington's sinister secret and makes his own heartbreaking discovery. Find out the terrifying truth about the general's special unit, covertly christened the "Continental Canis," and why his commandos called him "Big Timber" (it wasn't because his dentures were made of wood). Trust me, friends, everything you thought you knew about Washington's teeth and how he won the war is dead wrong.

 

THE LEGEND OF HIGHLAND MARSH: A socially distant, independent walking tour with QR codes and online content. The river rises! What rises with it? This Halloween the fish are biting (and by fish I mean vampire mermen).

Your car has broken down in Highland Marsh, a small river town upslope from an ancient waterway known locally as the Ten (short for Tenebris), where a trawler called the Cephalopod sank a hundred years before. Killing everyone aboard. Everyone, that is, except one man: Highland Marsh, the onetime mayor and founder of the town, who, remarkably, is still alive (and rich from fish), but has retreated to a big boat of a house high on the hill, as far from the river as any residence in town. Now a hundred years later, something slinks from the inky depths to have its due.

Note: This was during the pandemic. The "tour" was at night with life-size tableaux staged and uplit in shop windows on Main Street. A horror version of the Macy's window Christmas display. Alas, we seem to only have build pics, not display pics.  

 

 

Before Twilight & True Blood, before Dracula even, there was NOSFERATU: THE FIRST VAMPYRE

Based on the 1923 German Expressionist film by F. W. Murnau, this stage adaptation additionally drew on Chinese shadow-play, Shakespeare, and explorer/orientalist Richard Burton's translation of Hindu vampire fables to tell the story of Count Orlock, a rat-fanged Romanian looking for love even as he brings a boatload of Black Death to a German village.