The Seeing Place

A ghost light onstage, and a blue ghostly hand parting the red stage curtains.

This new play by USC Theatre Assistant Professor Lauren Wilson is a ghost story inspired by the “haunted” reputation of our most notable performance venue. In the face of budget cuts and theatre closures, directing student Sam and her cast sneak into a long-abandoned Longstreet Theatre to stage a renegade production of Hamlet. The play imagines Longstreet, an 1855 building once used as Civil War hospital and morgue, in an advanced state of disrepair, having been closed for a decade for safety reasons. Undaunted by the theater’s flickering lights and creeping mold, the director and her cast throw themselves into the project – that is, until spirits of the building’s past begin to stir.

September 26-28 and October 1-5