Written in 1987, Stephen King’s psychological horror novel Misery tells the story of Paul Sheldon, a best-selling American author of a series of romance novels set in the nineteenth century, featuring the protagonist Misery Chastain. Paul finds himself in a “situation where he was not just writing for his supper but for his life” (122) when his self-proclaimed “number-one fan” (6), a middle-aged, former nurse named Annie Wilkes, rescues him from a car accident during a snowstorm in Colorado. Annie’s fandom, though, turns out to be a dangerous obsession. Paul fights for his life as Annie’s mania turns more perilous and Paul races to finish the novel Annie has forced him to write, Misery’s Return.

 Full Moon Players Production

March 2 – 5, 2023
at Cypress Moon Studios 

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