Bøker av Matt Pelfrey

NO GOOD DEED revolves around the interconnecting stories of three troubled heroes, including a Richard Jewell-like security guard; a firefighter who has rescued a toddler from a well; and lonely teen Josh Jaxon, a budding graphic novelist whose "Hellbound Hero" comes to life as his alter ego."In a lot of ways, I want to hold this production up to the producers of SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK and say, 'This is how you put a graphic novel on stage.'" -Talkin' Broadway"Pelfrey has fashioned a bracingly cerebral and nerve-rattling piece." -Backstage"The twenty-something dudes that really like comic books and video games and seeing people get their asses kicked would totally think NO GOOD DEED is the most awesome play of all time." -The LAist

PURE SHOCK VALUE centers on the plight of three longtime Hollywood friend - Ethan Johnson, his brother, Tex, and Ethan's girlfriend, Gabby - who are trying their damndest to make a film called Barking Spiders. How low will they go to get the film made?"Think the Hollywood satire has been done to death? Think again. Playwright Matt Pelfrey sets the format's tired tropes of murderous Tinseltown greed among the most desperately delusional of wannabe edgy filmmakers and snarks them up with ever more outrageous sex, gore, movie jokes and violence ... SHOCK pulls off the rare feat of becoming funnier and more acute the more over-the-top it goes." -Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle"Matt Pelfrey's PURE SHOCK VALUE brilliantly updates the scathingly bleak Hollywood satire for a post-Tarantino generation of Silver Lake slackers." -Rob Avila, San Francisco Bay Guardian"You'll laugh, you'll feel terrible for laughing, and you'll laugh some more watching this Grand Guignol send-up of those trying to make it in Tinseltown." -Matt Sussman, San Francisco Flavorpill"Astonishingly witty dialogue and riotous situations." -Kevin Langson, EDGE SF"PURE SHOCK VALUE is a great black comedy." -Richard Connema, Talkin' Broadway

On a rainy night in Los Angeles, a young couple get an abrupt visit from two old friends. But they're not stopping by for pleasure but to warn them that someone, or something, from their past is coming for them all ... "David Lynch, Amy Tan and The Man Show collide in FREAK STORM ... Matt Pelfrey's new one-act about the inscrutability of those we love juggles macabre comedy, relationship drama and political incorrectness ... Pelfrey is undeniably talented, demonstrating a flair for bilious ribaldry." David C Nichols, Los Angeles Times "In the skilled hands of playwright Pelfrey, this is a classic, dramatic moral dilemma that goes ... right to the guts ... with primal force and power ... Add FREAK STORM to the list of fine works by Pelfrey." -Backstage West "... unsettling exploration of the human psyche ... this gripping morality play." -Martin Hernandez, L A Weekly "The climactic scene with a garbage disposal is so shocking that some avert their eyes, others turn away, but all are riveted to the seats, wondering how it will resolve. You'll have to see the play to know what went down the disposal - prepare to be shocked! ... FREAK STORM is really freaky ..." -Entertainment Today "This domestic disturbance reveals very scary stuff about the world of men ... This unsettling drama which benefits from ... a lot of dark comic material from Pelfrey's bag of tricks." -K C R W (radio)

How far would YOU go to defend your family? AN IMPENDING RUPTURE OF the BELLY concerns Clay Stilts' desire to fortify his house in preparation for both a new baby and the apocalypse he's convinced is just around the corner. Clay worries about so many things, nuclear terrorism, avian bird flu, killer earthquakes, riots, small pox crop dusters flying over Dodger Stadium. His obsessions are sidetracked when a slowly escalating battle with a neighbor who refuses to curb his dog explodes in an impulsive act of violence. In one reckless moment, Clay's world spins out of control, becoming a microcosm for a global struggle against threats to our security, both real and imagined. "Pelfrey is undeniably talented ... a gripping, funny play." -Los Angeles Times "Matt Pelfrey's galvanizing black comedy resembles those nightmares that nag at one's psyche the following day - too off-kilter to accept as reality, yet infused with imagery too haunting to dismiss ... Pelfrey's thought-provoking work is mesmeric from the first moment to the last." -Backstage "Pelfrey has a gift for oddball concepts and sardonic dialogue." -Variety "A brilliant little bulletin from the paranoia frontier." -L A City Beat