Can the haunted house be reinvented for a digital stage? This L.A. theater tries

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In Geffen Playhouse's 'Someone Else's House,' multimedia artist Jared Mezzocchi opens the door to his family's haunted 200-year-old New England house.

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There’s a plotline involving a swarm of bees that doesn’t seem beyond the pale of natural science. When splattered blood appears out of nowhere in the narrative, the police stave off panic by raising the possibility of a wounded animal.The shadow of a diabolical specter is gradually introduced. The leading culprit is the soul of the proprietary patriarch of the Johnson clan, the family that maintained ownership of the house until the Mezzocchis moved in.

My own internet detective work informed me that Enfield is also the name of a London borough famous for its own poltergeist. Uncanny coincidence or artistic dissembling? You’ll have to decide for yourself, but I wish I hadn’t consulted my phone during the performance. The regular Joe quality of Mezzocchi, dressed for chilly New England weather like a hipster plumber on emergency call, worked until it stopped working. I couldn’t help noticing a light in the background that kept flickering. The subtlety of the effect becomes increasingly pronounced, a reminder of Mezzocchi’smultimedia background. Had there not been such an emphasis on factuality, I might have been better able to supply the suspension of disbelief needed for goosebumps.

Still, I was impressed with how the production, a collaboration with Virtual Design Collective, progressed. The setting, when it’s finally revealed, is a genuine coup de théâtre. If I didn’t know Mezzocchi had another show that evening, I might have called 911 to rescue him.Ghost stories ultimately succeed not by providing evidence beyond a shadow of a doubt.

 

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