Check out the official trailer for 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.
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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.
Read All About It
Broadway World | Apr. 23, 2025
Review: BURNT TOAST, Battersea Arts Centre
“Susie Wang’s layered body-horror story is not for the faint-hearted.”
The New York Times | April 28, 2023
At a Berlin Festival, Avant-Garde Theater from Europe and New York
“A clammy and rigorously precise chamber work, it takes place entirely in the lobby of a sinister hotel.
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.