Kicking off its 26th season, The Garage Theatre is staging “Our Dear Dead Drug Lord” — Alexis Scheer’s dramatic comedy about four teen girls in a Florida treehouse in 2008 obsessed with Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
Directed by Skylar Alexis — making her directorial debut at the theater — the play sees the girls talking about school and boys in the privacy of their treehouse and, oh yeah, performing a séance to communicate with Escobar’s spirit, including animal sacrifice.
Alternately funny and gruesome, the play is notable for portraying a world exclusively of young women (except, of course, the drug lord’s pervasive spirit). It’s also reminiscent of Arthur Miller’s 1952 play “The Crucible,” about the 1690s Salem witch trials, when more than a dozen women were executed for “witchcraft” in early-American Puritan society…