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Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 4m, 3girl(s), 1boy(s)
Paul Unwin
The Hodgsons had no idea what a poltergeist was when, in the summer of 1977, furniture and toys started moving of their own accord. An ordinary, working-class family who lived in a north London council house became the centre of one of the most famous poltergeist events in the world.
The Hodgsons had no idea what a poltergeist was when, in the summer of 1977, furniture and toys started moving of their own accord. An ordinary, working-class family who lived in a north London council house became the centre of one of the most famous poltergeist events in the world. This is the story of one night in the spring of 1978 when events were approaching a climax. Inspired by first-hand accounts of one of the ghost hunters, The Enfield Haunting is the story of what happens when a dedicated single mother tries to protect her three children from something that is incomprehensible, deeply disturbing and hurtling toward a terrifying conclusion.
WRITER – A middle-class voice on a telephone. OLDER MARGARET – A voice on the telephone. PEGGY – Late forties. Working class, deep feeling, a lioness under a nervy shell. REY – Late forties. Working class. Never left home, now lives alone with his cat. JIMMY – Twelve. Very intense. Bad stutter. MARGARET – Seventeen. Bursting with pubescent energy. JANET – Sixteen. Gaunt, bags under her eyes, intense in a haunted girl kind of way. MAURICE – Mid-sixties. An upper-middle-class man. He is tender and warm. He wears a moustache, bow ties, etc. THE MAN THE GIRL BETTY – Mid-fifties, Maurice’s wife. Dignified in her grief.
The play can be performed by eight actors with WRITER/MAN, JANET/GIRL and BETTY/OLDER MARGARET doubling.
The play can be performed by eight actors with WRITER/MAN, JANET/GIRL and BETTY/OLDER MARGARET doubling. No interval.
“Gripping” — City A.M.
“This lo-fi horror builds in creepiness.” — The Guardian
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