curtain freaks

"The House of Gold" is a twisted comedy about JonBenet's home as a living breathing thing. Created by Newburyport, CT playwright Gregory Moss' the play was staged this past summer and mentioned in the year end review of the Port's local theater. Tagged as one of the best shows of this past year, it does not appear the Moss' play is scheduled for production anywhere outside Newburyport or again there in 2009--

Curtains for 2008: A look back at the year in Port theater
By J. C. Lockwood

"...A look back at Port’s year of theater

Gregory S. Moss came home to Newburyport with a new production about one very strange house — “The House of Gold,” the place where JonBenet Ramsey, not necessarily the same freakishly over-sexualized 6-year-old beauty queen and virginal temptress, was brutally murdered — perhaps by her parents, perhaps not, no one really knows.

In this production, directed by Steven Hailey — easily one of the best shows staged in the city — the house-home assumes the characteristics of a living, breathing creature one as broken and haunted, as the rest of the characters who are living, lurking and hiding within — recapture something lost, something taken from them, something that will never return to them on this side of sanity. The show was magical, terrifying and uproariously funny — and sometimes gross and disgusting..."