Disturbing and funny, tender and wicked, Joseph Ferron Hiatt's new comedy The Devil and Ben Jones follows young Ben on his search for a place in his strange, cruel world.

The weird story is filled with sharp dialogue, chicken, bones, and pits. Follow Ben, a chicken-boned boy looking for love and acceptance, as he tries to make sense of his surreal reality. His deflatable friend Pug picks on him and flirts with his crazy mother, Miss Jones, who buries chicken carcasses, yells at flies, and makes poor Ben sleep in the basement, on the other side of the pit. The Devil tempts him from the shadows. This play creates a deep and fascinating world. It will wrap your mind around your head and make you want to see it again. It will grab your heart and possibly let go of it the next morning.

Director Jim Davies creates a paranoid backwoods world filled with pits and deformed trees that will creep you, make your bones twitch, and your skin prickle.

VisionQuest is proud to have The Devil and Ben Jones as a part of First Glance.

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