HIGHLAND LAKE, NY — NACL Theatre will present “The Terrifying,” by Minor Theater of New York City (www.minortheater.org), on Saturday, June 11 at 7:30 p.m.

“The Terrifying” is a new theater piece written by New York City playwright Julia Jarcho. Centered around the subject of fear, the play is influenced by classic horror as well as the writings of Nikolai Gogol. Building on their past work with pop culture genres, Minor Theater turns to horror as a challenge: given that horror is so deeply bound to film, the company creates a vocabulary of terror specific to live theater to provoke both horror and wonder.

The story takes place in a village bound by intimidation, bigotry and lust, and revolves around two teenagers who are stalked by a horrible beast. Building toward a final confrontation between girl and demon, “The Terrifying” creates a world that feels slightly unreal and strange—all the while chipping away at the audience’s sense of being safe from that strangeness. The artists of Minor Theater marshal sensory discoveries into a narrative of adolescent deviance and longing, to speak back to the kinds of scary stories our culture usually tells.

Hilton Als of the New Yorker wrote, “Julia Jarcho is one of two “vital talents making an indelible mark on the downtown theatre scene.” Visit nacl.org.