Set in an idyllic 1950s-style suburb, What If They Ate The Baby? peels back the pristine veneer of domestic perfection to reveal something far darker simmering beneath. When the impeccably composed Dottie visits her neighbor Shirley to return a casserole dish, their polite chatter and forced smiles begin to crumble, exposing secrets too unsettling to stay buried. Between whispers of missing husbands, strange noises upstairs, and suspiciously red spaghetti, paranoia festers as the walls seem to listen in.

Fresh from its award-winning, sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, this queer clown two-hander—hailed as “an absurdist masterpiece”—fuses biting humor with social commentary. Drawing inspiration from 1950s McCarthyism and the aftermath of Roe v. Wade’s overturning, What If They Ate The Baby? is a sharp, unsettling satire about surveillance, repression, and the sinister expectations placed on American womanhood.