Auditions for Mortal Thoughts

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Director: Florence Heller

Audition Dates at 120 Main Street Orleans, MA:  

Monday January 12 - 7 - 10p

Tuesday January 13 - 7 - 10p

Friday January 14 - 7- 10p

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Performance Dates: November 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 2026.

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Written by Claude Kerven, who co-wrote the 1989 feature film Mortal Thoughts, starting Demi Moore & Bruce Willis.

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SYNOPSIS:

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

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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.

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THE TIME:  The 1980s. The decade of decadence. Leg warmers and Blockbuster.
AIDS and the Internet. Regan is in and the Soviet Union is crumbling.

 

THE SETTING:  Bayonne, New Jersey. 

A working-class suburb 12 miles from Manhattan. But those twelve miles may as well be a hundred and twelve miles because there is nothing sophisticated or cosmopolitan about Bayonne. It's the kind of place Rocky would come from if he wasn't born in Philly.

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LOGLINE:  A loathsome man is found dead, and two childhood best friends land in the crosshairs of the investigation. Under the harsh glare of the police—and the weight of their own vulnerabilities—they must cling to each other and prove their innocence, or risk never returning to their children.

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A true crime gone wrong…or right…? But, beneath it all, a story of female friendship and just how far someone will go for the person they love before crossing a line they can’t uncross.

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TAGLINES:  We all love murder, don’t we?

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.