The Rope Trick

“There’s no such thing as ghosts”: Join AET for a Work Premiere Ghost Story!

The Rational Thinkers Society is hosting an intimate conversational event on the topic of historical seances - and you’re invited - to The Rope Trick by Steven San Luis presented by Anaconda Ensemble Theatre.

The play is an intimate conversation between the three women in the play: Diana, the Society Outreach Coordinator, her assistant Shelby, and Helen Webb, the granddaughter of a woman who could speak with the dead. The night is full of twists and turns, as the group is on a quest to figure out if Maggie Davenport, Helen’s grandmother, could indeed - speak to the dead.

The creative team is from all over the U.S. with a Montana heavy crew including Tessa Welsch (Director/Livingston, MT), Nikki Johnson (Stage Manager and Assistant Director/ Anaconda, MT), Kinsley Kelly (Assistant Stage Manager/Anaconda, MT), Zach Walsh (San Antonio, TX/Sound Designer), Sebastien O'Halloran (Missoula, MT/Marketing Designer), Sam Debree (Lighting Consultant/Butte, MT), Brent Markee (Sound Board Operator/Anaconda, MT) and Steve Collins (Light Board Operator/Anaconda, MT).

The cast includes Ann Peacock (portraying Helen/ Polson, MT), Caden Tippett (portraying Shelby/Butte, MT) and Jackie Vetter (portraying Diana/Anaconda, MT).

In addition to a donation only bar that will run in the lobby, AET is also welcoming Bozeman based assemblage artist, Becky Roberts, to show some of her art - that is inspired by the show - in the lobby during the performance.

AET is grateful to be sponsored by the Tammis Day Foundation and The Tri-M Foundation.

“Check in at the front table when you arrive, and please note that the electrical system in the building is an old one. If at any time the lights begin to flicker, just remember . . . There’s no such thing as ghosts.”