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Visit four spooky city locations; watch five scary plays
By Jamie Larson
Halloween returns to Hudson for one night only Friday. Ghost Walk will take attendees to four spooky historic city locations where they will be treated to five original short terrifying performances.
The tour will mix Hudson’s past with live theater as the Walking the Dog Theater and Bindlestiff Family Variety Arts Inc. team up for the first time.
Four of the five scary stories were written by Columbia County teens, and all will be adapted and acted out by youths from the Walking the Dog Theater’s After-School Drama Workshop. The fifth story is a timely Walking the Dog original about the final days of Henry Hudson.
The stories written by the children were part of a Bindlestiff youth activity initiative and were published in the Register-Star, which is sponsoring the event. Each of the locations have been decorated by professional set and lighting designers.
Ghost Walk will begin at 6 p.m. at Space 360 on Warren Street and will head first to the Hudson Opera House where the story, “The Opera” will be performed. The unrestored and visually powerful second floor opera hall will set a grand stage for the night’s first act.
A guide will then take walkers to the Register-Star office building, which used to be the city jail. If the old building, with its creaks and clatters, isn’t scary enough, the next play, “Devil’s Pray,” will take place in the dungeon-like basement, where current employees never venture unless absolutely necessary.
Next up is the ancient structure that is now home to the Hudson Area Library. The library has had many uses over its long life, including as an insane asylum and an orphanage. In the caverns of the library’s labyrinth, the youth will perform “Purgation.”
The tour will conclude back at 360, where terrified walkers will watch “Blood and Roses” and “Sounding the Hudson,” which, in the wake of the year-long Hudson River Quadracentenial celebration, will take a dark look at the river’s discoverer’s demise at the hands of his mutinous crew.
Tickets for the two-hour excursion into the depths of Hudson are $5 each.
For more information go to www.ghostwalkhudson.com.
The tour will mix Hudson’s past with live theater as the Walking the Dog Theater and Bindlestiff Family Variety Arts Inc. team up for the first time.
Four of the five scary stories were written by Columbia County teens, and all will be adapted and acted out by youths from the Walking the Dog Theater’s After-School Drama Workshop. The fifth story is a timely Walking the Dog original about the final days of Henry Hudson.
The stories written by the children were part of a Bindlestiff youth activity initiative and were published in the Register-Star, which is sponsoring the event. Each of the locations have been decorated by professional set and lighting designers.
Ghost Walk will begin at 6 p.m. at Space 360 on Warren Street and will head first to the Hudson Opera House where the story, “The Opera” will be performed. The unrestored and visually powerful second floor opera hall will set a grand stage for the night’s first act.
A guide will then take walkers to the Register-Star office building, which used to be the city jail. If the old building, with its creaks and clatters, isn’t scary enough, the next play, “Devil’s Pray,” will take place in the dungeon-like basement, where current employees never venture unless absolutely necessary.
Next up is the ancient structure that is now home to the Hudson Area Library. The library has had many uses over its long life, including as an insane asylum and an orphanage. In the caverns of the library’s labyrinth, the youth will perform “Purgation.”
The tour will conclude back at 360, where terrified walkers will watch “Blood and Roses” and “Sounding the Hudson,” which, in the wake of the year-long Hudson River Quadracentenial celebration, will take a dark look at the river’s discoverer’s demise at the hands of his mutinous crew.
Tickets for the two-hour excursion into the depths of Hudson are $5 each.
For more information go to www.ghostwalkhudson.com.
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