Join The Company, a collective of local theatre creatives, as they present an amateur production of The Haunting of Hill House. The show is based on Shirley Jackson's classic horror novel, adapted by F. Andrew Leslie and presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Ltd.
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.
Dr. Montague is joined by three others, all unacquainted, but all having their particular reasons for accepting his 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 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 direct communication with the departed spirits – a type of psychic research regarded fearfully by Dr. Montague and which, as subsequent events bear out, brings on a crisis as it goads the evil forces of Hill House to a new and, for one of those present, fatal fury.
