Melanie arrives home from hospital after a car accident in which she was badly injured. Her plastic surgeon husband has done an amazing repair job to her facial injuries, but nobody can heal the mental anguish. Soon she begins to hear the haunting and menacing voices of two teenagers who were killed in the accident, and her marriage and job - indeed her very sanity - are threatened. Things get worse when government inspectors arrive unexpectedly at Melanie's high-tech electronics company and the board threaten to have her removed. Even her company's main rival has found out something is wrong. Her family, friends and colleagues - even those she trusts - never hear the voices, so Melanie must be going insane... or is there another explanation? 
With slight alteration the lead role of Melanie could effectively be played by a disabled actress.

	Cast
	Character	Lines (approx.)
	Melanie businesswoman	539
	Richard Melanie's husband	174
	Chris electronics genius	40
	Barbara Melanie's mother	231
	Gemma Melanie's friend	93
	Helen company solicitor	22
	Dorothy older woman	17
	Philip Dorothy's husband	17
	Tony offstage voice only, young	30
	Amanda offstage voice only, young	32
	Franz van der Weil Dutch businessman	135

Author's Notes

This play was inspired by my one-time profession, as an electronic engineer, and how miniature electronics could intrude on our lives in the most evil of ways.

It's set around the world of big business (though the set is a normal house) and is my only thriller where the crimes do no involve a murder. Nearly all the characters are an evil bunch, too, with poor "tea-is-the-answer-to-all-ills" mum providing a little lightness.

Perhaps unusually for my thrillers, nobody gets bumped off!

Past Productions

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Some past productions