House of Usher Chills and Thrills Castle Hill
Castle Hill Players’ production of Fall of the House of Usher promises a masterpiece of suspense and terror. This macabre story is set in the dilapidated and ancestral house of Roderick Usher. The play, adapted from Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic short story, is set to have audiences have you holding their breath and gripping the seats with their fingernails.
The time is 1936 in Boston. James Brookfield is being held on suspicion of murder. The story opens with Brookfield, an old school friend of Roderick, recounting the strange and chilling events that have occurred while he was a guest at the house. There is a grotesque and sinister aura that surrounds this residence and Roderick, who possesses a fractured disposition and dark thoughts, is sinisterly affected. Roderick lives with his sickly and feeble twin sister Madeline. Nothing is what it seems in the Usher house. A place filled with a darkness and secrets that lives amongst its inhabitants.
A highly tense and engaging play that examines the psychology of Roderick and his belief that his house is alive and is causing the debilitating illness that lives amongst them because of supernatural control.
Tickets can be booked online at www.paviliontheatre.org.au. Fall of the House of Usher opens on Friday 25 September 2015 and runs until Saturday 17 October 2015. Tickets price: $21/$26.
Images: (top) left to right - Ben Freeman and Stephen Snars & (lower) left to right: Gavin Jamieson background, Ricarda Emmanuel and Ben Freeman.
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