THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, WMU, 2024

Director: Mark Liermann | Scenic Designer: Andrea Imsland | Lighting Designer: Evan Carlson | Sound Designer: Joshua Reid Technical Director: Patrick Niemi | Costume Designer: Kathryn Wagner | Props Master: Perris Stachlewitz

Audiences enter the space through a door that they have never entered before. Passageways and turns cause unease in the audience from the moment they first arrive. The house is alive and character itself. It is all encompassing, enveloping and consuming everything that we see, and everything past that as well. The use of verticality in the space created a looming feeling above the heads of everyone present. The house evokes fear. Everyone who sees this production should be afraid. To amplify that fear, the play is produced in the round, so that audience members can see fear on the faces of everyone around them.

Research

I researched houses of the time period as well as ghostly elements that could be hidden in plain sight throughout the space. Maybe an audience member would notice them, maybe they will go unseen…

Concept Sketches

Since we knew we wanted to put on this production in the round, I spent a lot of time playing with different layouts of our seating units with different shapes of platforms in the center.

Paint Elevations

Drafting

Production Photos

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