Characters: 2m, 1f / Dark Comedy / Interior A dark comedy about the changing face of the American family and the limits of love and cheesecake, as a hopeful young couple gives birth to a smudge, written by two-time Emmy Award winner Rachel Axler. For signs of intelligent life in the theatrical universe, I hereby refer you to Smudge, Rachel Axler's pitch-black comedy.- Marilyn Stasio, Variety Creepy and funny. Precise and imaginative. Parenthood never looked weirder or more terrifying than | Smudge by Rachel Axler, Paperback | Indigo Chapters