Butcher of Dreams

by Williams, Kay; Wyman, Eileen

• ISBN13: 9780964924161
• ISBN10: 0964924161
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-30
• Publisher: Calliope Pr

Summary

Lee Fairchild has realized every actor's dream, a theater of her own. The dream is about to turn into a nightmare. Who, or what, lives on the third floor? The theater was an abandoned burlesque house where the homeless lived until Lee and her staff scrub it out. The third floor makes Lee uneasy with its scattering of feathers and bones. Still, having the theater is a dream come true. If her husband hadn't died six month earlier, she'd be on cloud nine. It doesn't matter, she tells herself, that the theater sits in Hell's Kitchen on the seedy fringes of Times Square, that it's under-budgeted and understaffed and that she (as Admini- strative Director) will play only one role this first season. It's an Equity theater, offering five plays in repertory. Times Square redevelopment makes the property desirable.With her husband recently dead and her daughter away at college, Lee falls into a passionate affair with a younger man. Bizarre, seemingly unrelated events, beginning with a homeless person found dead on the third floor of the theater, escalate to ritual murder.Playful improvisation becomes a deadly game. Quali-ties that make her a good actress, imagination and empathy, pull her through the looking glass into a nightmare world, to the brink of death. Over all hovers a Mexican mask, stolen from the tomb at Monte Alban, its eyes glittering with secrets of the ancient Aztecs and sacrifice.