TRICK OR TREAT
A Play by Craig Harwood
 

Synopsis

On Halloween night, two lonely strangers meet, determined to bury misery with the thrill of anonymous sex. However, the ghosts from their pasts have a different agenda that causes a fleeting adventure to become a night of emotional torture.

In an empty bar, a man is looking for sex, silence and a modicum of sanity.  A woman is looking to escape into anonymity, conversation and a fifth olive for her third martini.  Fate brings these two together for the night.  No names, no questions, no expectations.

In a vain attempt to block out the apparitions of their former lovers, the man and woman throw themselves into bold erotic exploration. He cooks. She penetrates. Unexpectedly, intimacy blossoms. From sex to sleep and back again, from midnight to dead-of-night to dawn, they uncover a haunting desire and reveal delicate secrets. Throughout, their spirit-lovers linger, watching, probing and pushing them ever closer to the jagged edge of sanity.

When two strangers face each other, they face themselves.  Each absorbs the other’s grief, struggles with an aching need for love, and maybe – just maybe – offers a second chance. But on Halloween night, are the pasts that haunt them willing to let go?