Audition Call for “The Haunting of Hill House”

August 28 and 29 • 1–4 pm
Second Congregational Church, 115 Hillside Street, Bennington

Show dates: October 29, 30,31 and November 5, 6, 7

Directed by Robert Ebert
Cast size: 4 Women and 3 Men
Audition: Cold readings from the play—sides will be available
For more information: bct@bpacvt.org or call 802-447-0564

Synopsis:

The Haunting of Hill House is a novel by Shirley Jackson. It was adapted as a stage play by F. Andrew Leslie in 1964.

Hoping to cause a sensation in the field of parapsychology, Dr. John Montague rents Hill House, a secluded manor with a reputation for being haunted. He carefully selects two participants for his study—Eleanor Vance, a thirty-two-year-old woman who was reported to have had experiences with a poltergeist as a child, and Theodora, a woman marked in one of his lab’s studies as having psychic abilities. A third participant, Luke Sanderson, also joins the group. Luke stands to inherit Hill House after his aunt dies, and Luke’s aunt sends him to watch over the house and deter amateur ghost hunters.