Title
Files
Playwright
Lucille Fletcher
Performance Dates
August 1-5; 7-12, 1990
Creative Team
Producing Director....................................Dr. Donald Seay
Managing Director....................................Tod Wilson
Director.....................................................Pamela Hill
Set Designer.............................................Fred J. Thayer
Lighting Designer......................................Robert Johnson
Costume Designer....................................Marcia Hain
Sound Designer........................................J. Christopher Wojcieszyn
Production Manager.................................Lisa J. Snodgrass
Stage Manager.........................................Michael S. Warren
Synopsis
Unable to sleep, Elaine Wheeler paces the living room of her Manhattan townhouse, troubled by unsettling memories and vague fears. Her husband tries to comfort her, but when he steps away for a moment Elaine screams as she sees (or believes she sees) the body of a dead man in the window across the way. The police are called, but find nothing except an empty chair. Elaine's terror grows as shortly thereafter she sees still another body—this time a woman's—but by now the police are skeptical and pay no heed to her frantic pleas. Her husband, claiming that Elaine may be on the verge of a breakdown, calls in a lady psychiatrist, who agrees with his suggestion that Elaine should commit herself to a sanitarium for treatment. From this point on, the plot moves quickly and grippingly as those involved—Elaine's old friend and house guest Blanche; the inquisitive and rather sinister man who lives next door; and the nosy German maid Helga—all contribute to the deepening suspense and mystery of the play as it draws towards its riveting and chilling climax.
https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1485
Disciplines
Acting | Dance | Theatre and Performance Studies | Theatre History
Keywords
OST, Summer Stock, Otterbein Theatre, Musicals
Recommended Citation
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department, "Night Watch" (1990). 1990 Summer Theatre. 2.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/summer_production_1990/2