Photo Flash: Hell in a Handbag's SCREAM, QUEEN, SCREAM! World Premiere Begins Tonight

Hell in a Handbag Productions continues its 2015-16 season with the world premiere of SCREAM, QUEEN, SCREAM!, a horror trilogy by David Cerda inspired by classics like Creepshow, Night Gallery and Tales From the Crypt, directed by Wm. Bullion. SCREAM, QUEEN, SCREAM! will play tonight, September 24 - October 31, 2015 at Mary's Attic, 5400 N. Clark St. in Chicago's Andersonville neighborhood. The press opening is Sunday, September 27 at 7 pm. BroadwayWorld has a look at the cast in action below!

Join the twisted ensemble at Hell in a Handbag Productions in a twisted trio of tales featuring possessed office temps, ravenous monsters and deadly identical twins. The horrors of office work are explored in the chillingly accurate TACO TUESDAY. A seemingly pleasant office temp (Rachel Hadlock) is not what she appears to be but nobody will believe Candy (Kristopher Bottrall), the office queen bee. Can Candy save her co-workers from the horrible fate that awaits them or will they suffer the wrath of the Office Master 2000?

Next up, Handbag Artistic Director David Cerda is featured in THE BOX -- an even campier tribute to the already campy The Crate from the classic '80s film Creepshow. Cerda plays Betty Carr, a horrible shrew of a woman who pushes her long-suffering college professor husband (Chad Ingold) to the edge. When a box is found on campus grounds, the deadly contents give Professor Carr an even deadlier idea.

How do you top a monster in a box? How about Ed Jones as identical twin sisters?! SHUT UP AND DIE, MAGGIE! is a deliciously gothic tribute to the hag horror films of the '60s -- a mash-up of the Bette Davis classics Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte and Dead Ringer, with a dash of Joan Crawford's Strait Jacket (in the interest of equal time). It's the story of identical twin sisters Maggie and Aggie Honeycutt -- Maggie is the beautiful, carefree belle of the ball and Aggie is her much maligned, studious and level headed sister. When Maggie's suitor, Beauregard Bullhorn (Chazie Bly), is viciously murdered, all fingers point to Maggie, who's convicted and committed to the insane asylum. Twenty years later, Maggie returns home in search of peace and quiet, but certain forces have other plans for her. Can Maggie escape the demons of her past -- or is she doomed to relive the horror of that tragic night?

The cast also includes Jamie Smith, Lolly Extract, Shiv Mann, Laura Coleman, Caitlin Coleman, Christea Parent, Terry McCarthy and John Cardone as Count Dragula, the cross-fearing cross-dressing hostess!

The production team for SCREAM, QUEEN, SCREAM! includes: Lolly Extract (puppet design), Kate Setzer Kampausen (costume design), Mikey Moran (sound design), Mitchell Anthony (set design and technical director) Mealah Heidenreich (props design), Cat Wilson (lighting design), Christopher Carpenter (fight choreography) and Jamie Crothers (stage manager).

Tickets are currently on sale at www.handbagproductions.org.

Photo Credit: Rick Aguilar Studios

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