this old haunt (reading)

Created by Maggie Marie Rodgers, Rebecca Wahls, and SMJ

Penelope, Hetty, Selina, and Caroline are high school best friends. At the final concert of the school year, they sing a song they wrote together to honor their retiring choir teacher, Ms. E. Fast forward ten years and they stand in a funeral home at her funeral. One by one, they arrive at Ms. E’s cabin in the woods of Stowe, VT, and see each other for the first time since high school.

As tensions flare up about their current situations, a giant hole opens up in the floor and unravels a time-shifting web of mess and trauma from their pasts: failed engagements, abandoned promises, love triangles, and broken families. As the group collectively realizes the haunting nature of this house, the friends must slip in and out of time to revisit their past selves to shape their group’s future.

this old haunt is a folk musical that explores grief, growing apart, the depth of childhood friendship, and the ownership of memory.