The Third Story

The gangster/sci fi B-movie in their imagination unfolds before us, involving a chic crime czarina, a beautiful but icy lady scientist and her failed and understandably bitter human cloning experiment

A third story is the Russian fairy tale the screenwriter told her son as a child about a painfully shy princess who forges a diabolical pact with a terrifying but surprisingly vulnerable old witch

The fairy tale inspires the movie which inspires the mother and son screenwriters to mend their fractured relationship

REVIEWS

"Plays-within-plays require such intricate tailoring. So it's a pleasure to report that with The Third Story, the ever-captivating Charles Busch proves equally deft as both performer and seamstress" ~ Theatermania

"The main joy of The Third Story is that its foolery embodies something substantive ... No wonder The Third Story feels like such an energizing event" ~ Village Voice