Starring in "The Haunting of Hill House" are (left to right): Ernest Briggs, Mae Saltveit, Rebecca Russell, Maretta Babler, Bridget Mueting, Thomas Gubash and Brett Blonigen.
UST-CSC Theater Department to present ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ Oct. 18-22
The joint Theater Department of the University of St. Thomas and the College of St. Catherine will present a psychological thriller, “The Haunting of Hill House,” at 7 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, Oct. 18-21, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 22, in Frey Theater at St. Catherine, 2004 Randolph Ave.
Tickets are $5 for general admission and free to students, faculty and staff with ID from the Associated Colleges of the Twin Cities (St. Thomas, St. Catherine, Augsburg College, Macalester College and Hamline University). Seating is limited; reservations will be taken at The O'Shaughnessy Ticket Office at St. Catherine, (651) 690-6700.
The play was adapted for the stage in 1964 by F. Andrew Leslie from a 1959 novel by Shirley Jackson. It’s all here, going bump in the night, just in time for Halloween: the remote, abandoned, old mansion whose previous residents were mad, suicidal and violent; the researcher trying to prove the supernatural forces at work; the scary house’s evil forces goaded to a new, fatal fury … . Bring a friend!
Cast members include St. Thomas students Ernest Briggs, Mae Saltveit, Tom Gubash and Bridget Mueting, and St. Catherine students Brett Blonigen, Rebecca Russell and Maretta Babler. Jo Ann Holonbek, chair of the UST-CSC Theater Department, directs. St. Thomas student Andrea Wylie is stage manager. Technical director Troy Wilhelmson, set and lighting designer Greg Morrissey and costumer Carol Ann Winther are technical staff for the production.
