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Sleeping Giant

Paperback – November 18, 2025
By Steve Yockey

Steve Yockey’s Sleeping Giant is a sharp, eerie, and darkly comic play that explores what happens when a community’s longing for meaning collides with forces far older—and far stranger—than anything they’re prepared to face. Presented here in paperback, this Samuel French edition introduces a collection of interconnected vignettes that blend humor, horror, absurdity, and emotional vulnerability into a single unforgettable theatrical experience.

The story begins with a spectacularly ill-fated marriage proposal, complete with fireworks that go disastrously wrong. The explosions don’t just ruin the moment—they awaken something ancient sleeping at the bottom of a nearby lake. Something mythic. Something hungry. Something that shifts the ground beneath the town’s collective beliefs.

As the creature stirs, the play unfolds in a series of intimate, startling snapshots of everyday lives suddenly taking bizarre turns. Characters grasp for meaning, cling to rituals, and chase the comfort of belief—whether in love, in monsters, or in the stories they tell themselves to survive. Yockey’s writing is tender and unsettling, funny and deeply human, examining the lengths people will go when they desperately need something, anything, to believe in.

Sleeping Giant is a bold choice for theatre makers seeking strange, smart, character-driven work with emotional bite and supernatural flair. A powerful script for actors and readers who love the uncanny. Available through Queerazon.com, your source for LGBTQ+ plays, contemporary drama, and boundary-pushing theatre.