“With precise storytelling and a wild blending of forms, Caroline Macon Fleischer amplifies the envy, pride, wrath, and lust bubbling beneath creative collaboration. A Play About A Curse swims through both the psychological acuity of Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise and the sinister chill of Fleur Jaeggy’s Sweet Days of Discipline on its way toward deeper and stranger waters.” —Martin Seay, author of The Mirror Thief

"A Play About A Curse brilliantly showcases Macon’s gifts as both a novelist and a playwright. It's a gripping hybrid narrative about ambition, betrayal, and jealousy, encouraging us to contemplate the timeless question: 'What good is it to gain the whole world but lose our very soul?'” —Loy A. Webb, Playwright of The Light

“In the dust of an old building, the floorboards vibrate, a curtain draws, a scrim passes over, and out slips Caroline Macon Fleischer’s genre-agnostic novel, A Play About A Curse. Insidious mentor-mentee relationships take center stage, trading a theatre of absolution for some psychotic bliss. Macon Fleischer probes the question, ‘What happens when we become the object of our own contempt?’ Heralded by the author’s hallucinogenic prose and cutting dialogue, this is a story of players cleaved from a worldly realm, flung from their obsessions, chasing the myths of their own making.” —Lucas Baisch, Playwright