"LITTLE
SHOP OF HORRORS"
Seymour
Krelborn is a young botany enthusiast who works for and is exploited by Mr.
Mushnik, a Jewish immigrant who runs a flower shop on Skid Row, a ruined and violent
slum who longs to escape. Seymour is secretly in love with his colleague,
Audrey, another girl marked by an unfortunate past that is in a relationship
with a sadistic dentist who mistreats her. She also wants to leave the neighbourhood
and start a new life, although chances are slim for them all.
The fate of
the boy seems to change when an exotic plant, fuelled with his own blood,
acquires prodigious proportions and attracts many customers to Mushnik, who,
selfishly, promotes the young Krelborn to the status of partner. Also Audrey,
shocked by the sudden success of Seymour, begins to reciprocate his love.
But the
plant, now turned into a giant fern is
revealed as a predatory human blood, pushing the innocent boy to murder.
This play
has a strong rock accent and is reminiscent of the horror film series B, which
becomes the object of satire. It is a criticism of the American dream and
represents a metaphor of how greed and desire for victory can lead a person to
create 'monsters' that end up destroying it.
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