The House Where Nobody Lives by Paul North was my first college production as a theatre faculty at Bellarmine University.
A group of people find themselves in a house where they are
re-living tragic moments of their past. They can’t leave the house unless the only door in the house opens. Yet the door only opens when the
house decides a character is ready to leave.
The set only had one single door upstage center, a kiddy pool, a chair,
and a desk were the only furniture pieces on stage.
The house creaks and reacts to the characters’ behavior so the house itself its a character. Lighting and sound were used to create the house's personality and mood.
I chose this play because it deals with the question of our own existence and the existence of God. It contains a lot of symbolism and it violates time, space, and logic.
