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Runs from Friday October 15 2021 to Saturday October 30 2021

Approximate running time: 2 hours

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Arena Dinner Theatre
719 Rockhill St
Fort Wayne IN 46802

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The Haunting of Hill House

Adapted for the Stage by F. Andrew Leslie
From the Novel by Shirley Jackson
Directed by Becky Niccum

October 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, 30, 2021-Doors open at 6:45 pm, Curtain at 8 pm - Tickets must be purchased by 1 pm day of show.
October 24, Doors at 12:45 pm, Curtain at 2 pm - Tickets must be purchased by 1 pm October 23

The Haunting of Hill House will feature a dessert service only and not a full meal. Cash bar will be open.

Cut off from the outside world by its remote location and shunned by all who know its forbidding and sinister reputation, Hill House has remained empty and silent except for the daily visits of its grumbling caretaker, Mrs. Dudley. Its isolation is broken by the arrival of Dr. Montague, an investigator of supernatural phenomena who has been granted a short lease by the present owner. His mission is to delve into the morbid history of the house and to come to grips with the occult forces that have made it uninhabitable for many years. He is joined by three others, all unacquainted, but all having their particular reasons for accepting Dr. Montague’s invitation to share his Hill House sojourn. Their visit begins with jovial informality, but their sensibilities are soon jolted by strange and eerie occurrences. As they struggle to disguise their mounting fears they are joined by Dr. Montague’s wife and a friend, who have come to Hill House for purposes of their own. They too are absorbed by the supernatural, but their approach is via direct communication with the departed spirits—a type of psychic research which is regarded fearfully by Dr. Montague and which, as subsequent events bear out, brings on a crisis in which the evil forces of Hill House are goaded to a new and, for one of those present, fatal fury. 

A chilling and mystifying study in mounting terror in which a small group of “psychically receptive” people are brought together in Hill House, a brooding, mid-Victorian mansion known as a place of evil and “contained ill will.” Led by the learned Dr. Montague, who is conducting research in supernatural phenomena, the visitors have come to probe the secrets of the old house and to draw forth the mysterious powers that it is alleged to possess—powers which have brought madness and death to those who have lived therein in the past.

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