The Little Theatre

New York · USA · Theatre

A community playhouse in Jamestown with someone still working the room after everyone leaves.

The Little Theatre in Jamestown, New York is a community playhouse, the kind of building where the same families have been putting on shows for generations and the props in storage go back further than anyone can account for. Buildings like this hold on to people.

The shoe room is the story everyone tells first. It is where the footwear for every production is kept, and people who go in for a pair find the door swinging shut behind them and locking, with the temperature dropping hard at the same moment. It has happened often enough that some of the company will not go in without propping the door.

The figure reported is a man, described in the boiler room, in the practice room and standing on the stage itself late at night after a rehearsal has cleared. What people say about him is that he interferes. Objects that were set for the next performance are found somewhere they should not be, tools go missing and come back, and stage crew talk about him the way they would talk about a colleague with an irritating sense of humour. Several accounts describe children being spoken to and following a voice across the stage in an empty house, and the theatre takes that seriously enough that people mention it when they show newcomers around. Whoever he was, he has not stopped coming to work.

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Hvor ligger The Little Theatre?

The Little Theatre ligger i New York, USA.