On his 21st birthday Gene is informed that his 400-pound father was brutally murdered while hiking in the Pennsylvania Poconos. Now, left with only the old man's severed feet (carefully preserved in a jar of formaldehyde by his mother), Gene must find the killer and avenge his footless father.

If that synopsis doesn't get you interested in David Lindsay-Abaire's A Devil Inside, I don't know what will. Wide Eyed Productions' Kristin Skye Hoffmann and Justin Ness have flip-flopped roles since we last wrote about them, when they produced Much Ado About Nothing. Hoffmann, who directed that production, is acting with several other company members under the direction of Ness, who played Dogberry in Much Ado.

Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole was recently performed on Broadway in a much-hyped production featuring Cynthia Nixon, so it's exciting to see his work making it way to the independent scene, where I'm sure it will be no less dynamic and emotionally wrenching. Here's the production blurb from the Wide-Eyed website:

Wide Eyed will transform the Richmond Shepard Theatre into a Lower East Side laundromat where the play is set. Audiences will also be teleported to a university lecture hall and a number 6-train subway car. Fans of classic Russian literature will enjoy nods to Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and for the stiff of stomach there's bloody violence a-plenty.