The Feast of the Cannibals

In this play, a schoolteacher, along with his wife, are falsely accused of child molestation. The action takes place against the background of the child molestation hysteria that swept the country in the mid-1980s (and to some extent has continued unabated to this day). In many ways, it parallels the Salem witch trial hysteria of the 1600s and shows to what extent will the herd mentality take society when it is skillfully manipulated by cynical, power-hungry individuals and irrational lunatics.