Mortal Thoughts

Hooked on true-crime tales where ordinary people suddenly cross dangerous lines? Then, Mortal Thoughts is a play you can’t miss. 

Joyce, a Bayonne beauty-parlor owner trapped in her marriage to her volatile, drug-hungry husband James, constantly vents about wanting him gone—sometimes joking, sometimes not. Her childhood best friend, Cynthia, watches from the sidelines as the tension builds, uneasily aware that Joyce’s threats may no longer be empty. One night, something happens that sends both women into a spiral of secrets, panic, and desperate cover-ups. This nail biting tale unfolds in a stark interrogation room, where detectives push Cynthia through fractured memories filled with shifting motives and shocking turns. Darkly funny and unnervingly tense, Mortal Thoughts reveals how quickly ordinary people can abandon ordinary morality—and how the lies they tell to survive become the very traps that undo them. 

Adapted from the 1990s Hollywood film of the same name by the film’s very own screenwriter - Claude Kerven.