Psychological horror, 1995
5 people sit round the table, eating and having a good time. The conversation is lively as nobody has seen each other for a long time. Ernest and his wife, Stephanie, live in the house. They have invited her little bother, Martin, their common childhood friend, Mary, and her boyfriend, Donald. Soon the good atmosphere changes when the past creeps slowly through the involved people and transforms their lives into a hell of confessions. The dad of the brother and sister passed away because of illness, and soon the audience realizes that during 5 years he raped Mary and made her pregnant with a following abortion that caused that she cannot have children in the future. Martin, who couldn’t look him into his eyes, had to escape abroad, while Stephanie tried feverish to keep the fragments of something which once was so good – the safety, the love and the game. But games can be dangerous – especially when the mysterious Mary tries again to spin on her scary stories of her childhood that take control of the brother and sister. Why does Mary return to the house to get her revenge? Why did the locked corner cupboard have to be put in the basement? Why does the basement attract the attention of Ernest where the dad developed his photos? Thorsteinsson answers many of these questions in this clever composed thriller where nobody knows the difference between truth and fantasy. The play attracted great attention on the reading at Scandinavian on Stage in New York in April 2001
