Haunted lives

The first play, A Witch's Brew Other Places, takes place in the darkened basement of a remote farmhouse, where Daed, his sister Jule, and her boyfriend Tucker, nervously explore the macabre secrets of the shallow graves they believe to be there. Performed in semi-darkness, the play makes eloquent use of the powerful—and frightening—imagery of words to build to its shocking and terrifying denouement. In the second play, A Ghost Story, two hikers, Oswald and Hackett, seek shelter from a winter blizzard in an isolated Maine cabin. They are joined by a mysterious girl, Soma, who disclaims any k…