Watch, A Haunting
by Molly Rice

October 16th - November 2nd, 2008

Directed by Lynn Morton

The new Strand Theater announces the world-premiere of Watch, a Haunting by Molly Rice

Watch, a Haunting by Molly Rice is the second production in the new Strand Theaters season. Watch, A Haunting, centers on a young girl named VI living with her neurotic mother and elderly grandmother. Never fitting in, VI spends most of her time in her room or supplementing her lack of friends with food. VI does have a special talent, a talent of seeing people that others cannot. When she befriends a girl that no one else can see, her mother quickly makes an appointment with a PHD who may be after a Pulitzer, rather than providing any real help. Is VI crazy? Or is she simply able to see dead people?

The Strand Theaters first season is comprised solely of new works by emerging playwrights. Molly Rice is a native Texan whose plays have been published in Monologues For Women By Women (Heinemann Press), New Texas Writers (University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Press), Review (LMDA), and by Salvage Vanguard Press and Austin Script Works Press. She was a Lucille Lortel fellow at Brown University, where she graduated in 2006 with an MFA in Playwriting. Watch is directed by Lynn Morton. Lynn is making her Baltimore directorial debut after graduating in 2006 from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle with a B.F.A in Directing.