-- Minnesota Fringe

FRINGE FAVES COLLECTION

The Methuselah Tree

by Jayme McGhan

2 Males, 1 Female, 1 Offstage Entity

Synopsis:  Seven years from now in the basement laboratory of a family home, Harris, a metaphysical scientist obsessed with spiritual death, will invent the world's first bionic soul. Once ingested, the device will seek out the soul within the body, destroy it, and replace it, ultimately erasing all transgression and leaving humanity completely free of sin. Harris' wife, Murielle, a sort of architect, has her own fixation with building massive towers. Jeremy, their young teenage son, is infatuated with the decapitation of small rodents and a strange specter, The Man in the Attic, who resides in the upper floor of the family home. The family soon witnesses the true nature and the awful effects of Harris' creation. Will Murielle's fight to regain her family and the love they once shared bare fruit? Or will the branches of love wither and die with their attempts to save themselves from the approaching darkness?