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Prep School: Burnt Toast

Who is Susie Wang? – she’s a theatre company, founded in 2017 by four long-time collaborators, Trine Falch, Martin Langlie, Mona Solhaug and Bo Krister Wallström.

Burnt Toast is the third piece of Susie Wang’s trilogy on human nature – also including The Hum and Mummy Brown.

Learn more about Susie Wang.

RELATED EVENTS
  • Wed Nov 5 – Sat Nov 8, 2025

Susie Wang: Burnt Toast

  • Theater
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  • Tue Nov 11, 2025

Skirball Salon: Staging Horror

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OFFICE HOURS

Get Into It

Check out the official trailer for BURNT TOAST.

GET THEE TO THE LIBRARY

Recommended readings to get you in gear for the show.

  • Katerina Bantinaki, The Paradox of Horror: Fear as a Positive Emotion. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2012.
  • Meredith Conti and Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., editors. Theatre and the Macabre. University of Wales Press, 2022.
  • Tomas Macsotay, Kornee van der Haven, and Karel Vanhaesebrouck, editors. The Hurt(ful) Body: Performing and Beholding Pain, 1600-1800. Manchester University Press, 2017.
  • Vladimir L. Marchenkov. Arts and Terror. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
  • Ramon Paradoa. Stage Fright: An Examination of Horror-based Theatre Through Theory and Practice. University of Central Florida, 2020.

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CURRICULAR SPOTLIGHT

The call is coming from within the house. Interested in learning more about horror, tragedy, and gothic violence? Take a look at NYU’s Social and Cultural Analysis Department.