About the Play:

A-Haunting We Will Go is a full-length mystery-comedy by Tim Kelly. A famous TV producer plans to stay a night alone in a supposedly haunted hotel to fulfill a childhood dream. During her stay, a strange assortment of uninvited guests arrive to add to the spirit manifestations and the murderous intrigue. There's no such thing as a ghost. Or is there? A Haunting We Will Go will get the audience asking that same question.

A-Haunting We Will Go is a delightful murder mystery farce with lots of crazy characters and twists and turns your audience won't see coming. Glamorous, young television producer Norma Corwin made a childhood vow that once in her life she would spend a night alone in The Inn of the Three Sisters, an eerie and forbidding hotel made famous for the sisters' unresolved murder, horrifying spirit manifestations and murderous intrigue. When she learns the inn is to be dynamited to make way for a new highway, she decides the time is now (or never) and the "fun" begins. Bumps, strange noises, and an assortment of uninvited "guests" arrive to add more mystery: ESP expert Madame Lugosi; a young serviceman who says he's lost his way; a doomed young woman who comes to warn Norma that she's in great danger; and, yes, the ghosts of the three young sisters who, with the villainous handyman Flint, are cursed to relive the ghastly murder each night. As events unfold, it becomes doubtful that Norma and the others will survive the night.

A-Haunting We Will Go is a modern mystery-comedy suited to any school, community, or fringe theatre group searching for a play that has no problems in terms of production.

Cast: 13 female, 7 male

What people say:

"The show was a huge hit! The audiences LOVED it…especially the twist at the end, and my high school actors were absolutely fabulous." — Mary Barth, Barnstable High School Drama Club, Centerville, Mass

"We loved the play – it had lots of outrageous characters, fit into a 70-minute period, and was perfect for a high-school audience." — Deborah Craig, Stouffville District Secondary School, Stouffville, Ontario

"What a wonderfully fun show! The students had so much fun and if offered enough of a challenge to them that they were able to grow as actors and bring their own touches to each character." — Shannon Ordakowski, Northwestern High School, Albion, Penn.

About the Playwright:

Tim Kelly (1931-1998) is often regarded as the most-published playwright in America, with over 300 titles to his credit under both his real name and at least four pseudonyms (Vera Morris, J. Moriarty, Robert Swift, Keith Jackson). Many of his plays, like Les Miserables, M*A*S*H and The Uninvited, are adaptations of novels, films. or television series, although he also wrote a host of parodies a well as original scripts and musical libretti. While his plays have been performed off-Broadway and by such companies as the Royal Court Rep, the Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC) and Seattle Rep, he is best known for writing for university, community and school theatre.