Ben
Brantley

March 19, 2017

The unseen but very audible creature that runs rampant in The Terrifying — Julia Jarcho’s lively exhumation of the id within the stories we tell to scare ourselves — is said to have many fearsome qualities. There’s its fecal breath, for starters, and its tusks, which “are so rough as they catch on your guts.” But the description that leeches on to the memory after the lights have come up at the Abrons Arts Center, where this maiden production from Ms. Jarcho’s newly formed Minor Theater opened on Sunday night, is that of what it (or It) does to your mind. Once It has had its way with you, “your thoughts are just little wet brains in its mouth.”