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Paul Elliott, Writer

(310) 625-7505

  • Home
  • Award Winning Full-Length
    • Exit Laughing
    • Cries in the Night
    • Finding the Burnett Heart
    • Gentle Passage
    • Making Sweet Tea
    • Stolen Moments
  • Award Winning Musicals
    • Musicals
    • Dula The Musical
    • Last Call at Bali's
  • One Acts
    • One Acts
    • The Door
    • Mind Games
    • Ledge Ledger & The Legend
    • Legacy
    • Perspective
  • Short Competition Plays
    • Room to Share
    • Saving Garbage
    • King of the Cakewalk
    • Checkmate
  • Novels
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    • The Riverton Project
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Paul Elliott, Writer - Cries in the Night

 (Originally Titled Something Dark)

A poster of the 56th Season for Something Dark

CRIES IN THE NIGHT is, first and foremost, a ghost story for the stage, guaranteed to chill even the most stalwart and skeptical audience member. They'll be laughing and screaming with equal abandon.


Neal and Vickie are a young couple who have lost their six-year-old son in a drowning accident and move to another state, another home, to try to start life over again. Unfortunately, they're only in the new home a couple of nights before Vickie begins hearing a child crying in the darkness. Afraid she may be losing her mind, she keeps it a secret from her husband until one night, he hears the crying as well. Frantically tearing the house apart, they try to find the source of the crying, hoping that maybe, just maybe, it might be their son trying to reach through to them. The thought of him lost between life and death terrifies them, but once they do find the source, they discover something worse, much worse.


Cries in the Night

This is a play that examines the impact of early childhood experiences on our lives and after-lives, all couched in a ghost story for the stage that will have your audience members lifting their feet off the floor, afraid of what's crawling there. 


This one-set, six-character play is filled with fun, and all the special effects and illusions can easily be handled by your moderately tech-savvy stage and lighting crew. This is one show where the crew will have as much fun as the actor and the audience….The perfect Fall or Halloween treat for your subscription members.

Cast List:

Vickie (mid-thirties) – warm, caring, and troubled

Neal (mid-thirties) – Vickie's husband, a policeman, a realist

Kevin (mid-thirties) – Vickie’s best friend from college

Virginia Harrington -(sixty-five) neighbor – warm, caring, a non-stop talker

Angie – (seven) but seems younger and more fragile

Something Dark – (M) the shape of pure evil


PUBLISHED BY DRAMATIC PUBLISHING

Free Perusal Copy and full explanation of the illusions are available by contacting the playwright: paul@paulelliottwriter.com

World Premiere Production 2019 – Market House Theater, Paducah, Kentucky.

Copyright © 2023, Paul Elliott, Writer. All Rights Reserved.

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