While all this is happening, two of the teachers are getting on eachother’s nerves. I guess different productions of the play can give more or less emphasis to the potentially supernatural element here. One boy is crucified in the school’s chapel and a teacher gets a sudden desire to self harm, so there might well be something satanic going on. The consensus online seems to be that this violence is being caused by demonic possession, but this is never explicitly confirmed in the play. The students of an all boys Catholic school start committing acts of brutal violence against each other. Marasco was a teacher at the time he wrote this, and it shows. (He finished writing another one called Our Sally before he died, but the script has never been published as far as I can tell.) Child’s Play was well received though, and a movie version was made in 1972. It is the only play of Marasco’s that was ever produced. No, it doesn’t feature a doll named Chucky. Child’s Play, originally titled The Dark, was written several years before Burnt Offerings.
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