I’M GOING TO EAT YOU ALIVE
by Riley Elton McCarthy
Roach, a road trip vlogger suffering from pica documents his obsession with eating rocks from different natural landmarks across the American continent, and August, a run-of-the-mill (or maybe out of it) pathological arsonist who loves the smell of burning trees, reappears from Roach’s past to hijack the trip in order to rekindle their past romance. A wrong turn down a highway brings them to their childhood Midwestern town, where in the ashes of a burned down home a new spark threatens to derail their journey. “I’M GOING TO EAT YOU ALIVE” is a play about the ethics of incentivizing profiting off ofnature, male mental illness, and toxicity in queer spaces.
- CAST SIZE: 1M 2NB
- RUNNING TIME: 90+ minutes
- Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
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About the Playwright
Riley is a Danish & Irish multidisciplinary performance artist and professor. Their practice in both art and academia centers international stage performance, the classics, and cinema theory.
Riley’s work has been produced and developed off-Broadway, in London, Edinburgh, and Copenhagen. They have won or been a finalist for many major playwriting awards and residencies; including the Eugene O’Neill National Playwriting Conference (4x), the Staltonhall Residency, the Dramatists Guild Fellowship (2x), SheNYC Arts (2x) Workshop Theatre’s TGN2S+ Residency, ArtHouse Production’s INKubator, Culture Lab Emergence Residency, and the Juilliard Playwriting Program (2x). They have been published by NextStage Press.
They are a professor of playwriting at University of Texas at Arlington, and an adjudicator for the Texas Thespians State Festival. As an arts administrator, they’ve designed content + digital marketing campaigns for some of the hottest new productions off-Broadway, off-West, and for Edinburgh Fringe, collaborating with major theatre institutions to create exciting engagement for their seasons.
Riley loves reading Sheridan Le Fanu & Greek tragedies, building their own Criterion Closet, and thrifting ceramic kitchenware at Savers. They have two dogs named Hash Brown and Whiskey and two cats named Freddie and Lorraine.
Review I’m Going to Eat You Alive.