What does horror look like onstage? There are spooky ghost stories like The Woman in Black , bloodbaths like Carrie: The Musical , and heroically lo-fi scarefests like North Bergen High School’s 2019 adaptation of Alien , created on a budget of $3,500 and pretty high on my list of Shows I Wish I Had Seen. Most experiments with the genre retain an interest in its supernatural or gory tropes, along with the challenge of manifesting various gross or ghoulish effects in live performance.

Not so with Practice . Nazareth Hassan’s play has no hauntings or jump scares; it never shows us anything from beyond our mortal side of the veil, but there can be no doubt about its species. Its characters are stuck in a house with a monster, possibly more than one, and for almost three hours w

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