Professor House

by Jacob Juntunen

Directed by Sam Hayes

Okay, so it’s 2046, and a burned-out poet-professor is holed up in his attic office. Why isn’t he writing? Well, because perched on his desk like a gargoyle is his dead grad student—ghastly in white makeup—daring him to commit suicide.

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The student died in the 2041 pandemic, but helped invent something that made the professor—and his university—very, very rich. That blood money still haunts him. The dead grad student (ghost, demon, guilt projection?) forces the professor to relive key moments of their tangled relationship.

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So, is this memory tour going to save him? Or push him over the edge?

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Like a memory play with a ghost—or a ghost play with memories—there’s a ghost (maybe), a family (barely), and a reckoning (definitely).