"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."
—Muriel Rukeyser
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Must go!

Rarely do I recommend theater, but Lucy Alibar's BURNPILE is the best I've seen in at least ten years bar none! Brilliant, heart-warming, funny-funny-funny.


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Alexi Dugas is a hypnotherapist hired by Alaska to help recapture the lost memory of Johnson Holyfield’s war past and the tiger claw marks swiped across his cheek. As the twenty-eight-year-old psychologist drives the Alaska Highway, state troopers find two bear-ravaged girls near Holyfield’s cabin. Crucifixes have been found by both. At least five of Anchorage’s exotic dancers have been reported missing. Holyfield wears a rosary and loathes strippers.

After Alexi witnesses the savage murder of a rogue detective, Holyfield captures her from Anchrage to the wilderness. With the police hunting them, Alexi hypnotizes Holyfield in a hidden lake cabin and discovers the monstrous truth about the missing women. But now a wounded grizzly responsible for most of the maulings is stalking Holyfield’s scent on Alexi.