2023/24
season

THE rear
window
BY EMILY DIX

Directed by EMILY DIX

hart house theatre

may 17-31, 2024

STARRING
Oliver Georgiou as L.B. Jefferies

Kate McArthur as Lena Hall

Cayne Kitagawa as Charles Thomas

Antonino Pruiti as Lars Thorwald

WITH

Simone Matheson as Mrs Thorwald

Sean Jacklin as The Working Stiff

Trinity Lloyd as The Newlywed Wife

Jacob Dowdall as The Newlywed Husband

Rachel Frederick as The Dancing Girl

PRODUCTION

Matt Richardson - Fight Director
Wesley Babcock - Set and Lighting Designer

Emily Dix - Sound, Prop and Costume Designer

Bria Cole - Projection Designer

Julia Edda Pape - Stage Manager

Ayesha Maria Khan - Assistant Director

Aria Kowal - Assistant Set Designer

Arianna Skirzynska - Assistant Lighting Designer

Kaleb Harrison - Assistant Projection Designer

Athen Chloe Go - Scenic Design Assistant

Olia Kashevarova - Wardrobe Assistant

Cheryl Ng, Jill Duncan, David Oduro - Assistant Stage Managers

ABOUT
Recuperating from a broken leg, a news photographer spends his days cooped up in his New York apartment, watching his neighbours through the rear window of his home. The intense summer heat wave, a growing addiction to his painkillers, and the kind of delirium brought on by boredom and lack of sleep leads him to create fanciful stories about those he spies on, but when the line between truth and reality begins to blur, he finds himself questioning whether he has just witnessed a brutal murder, or whether his demons have finally gotten the best of him.

Based on the short story It Had To Be Murder by Cornell Woolrich, the same tale that inspired the 1954 Hitchcock film, Rear Window (James Stewart, Grace Kelly), The Rear Window takes a new look at this classic tale of a "peeping Tom" who saw more than he wanted to see. A gripping, psychological thriller that will leave you guessing until the final moments whether or not what we're seeing can truly be believed.

PRODUCED BY

Conor Fitzgerald and Emily Dix
Isabella Cesari - Producer-In-Training