Putting The Exorcist Onstage – Without The Money Shots

“A desecrated statue of the Virgin Mary. A forebodingly steep outdoor staircase. A girl whose head twists all the way around her body and emits something thick, green and unpleasant from her mouth.” These are among the famous images we will not be seeing in playwright John Pielmeier’s stage adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s novel (and not William Friedkin’s film version).