Synopsis
The Playroom
Published by Samuel French Inc
7 Male 4 Female
In a hotel apartment house leasing to the wealthy international set, teenager are rebellious, spoiled and bored with life on the highest material level
They search for bizarre adventure. They have a Gothic hideaway in a turret where they stick pins into the world's fetishes and do as they please
They're not patronized or caricatured but instead have a kind of cynical self knowledge and jaunty impertinence
One girl, jealous of her father's new wife, conspires with the others to bug the apartment, kidnap the stepmother's daughter and, when realizing what they've done, to kill the girl
"A tingling, tantalizing bone buckler" ~ N.Y. Journal American
"Want a good scare?... Gooseflesh entertainment with a novel and contemporary twist" ~ N.Y. Herald Tribune