Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” meets Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” in a new production at Aurora Theatre, “Feeding Beatrice,” opening this week. The play is a Gothic tale of haunting in a contemporary American setting, the weighty world of white suburbia. Director David Koté and actor Christopher Hampton, who portrays Lurie, joined “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes via Zoom to talk about how “Feeding Beatrice” and the horror genre invite conversation about real issues while dabbling in the unreal.
“This show is about a couple that buys a house in a predominantly white neighborhood and they discover a ghost in the house,” said Koté. ”The ghost haunts them and unearths things about them that they didn’t even know.”
The story shares plenty in common with the critically acclaimed horror-comedy film “Get Out,” though “Feeding Beatrice” was written by Kirsten Greenidge 20 years before the movie. With both stories exploring the fearsome possibilities in Black Americans attempting to pass through white spaces safely, “Feeding Beatrice” narrows its focus on the arena of homeownership; as Koté puts it, “the horror of African-Americans chasing the American dream.”
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