Every year, the intern director at the Rondo Theatre in Bath gets to produce a play with a theatre company of their choosing as part of the Rondo's autumn season.
This year, Jazz Hazelwood, artistic director of Second Face Theatre Company and the Rondo's 2014/2015 intern director, is producing a show with a difference.
It's undeniable that when theatres are empty they radiate a spine tingling atmosphere; but what if those rumours, the things that go bump in the night, that raise the hairs on the back of your neck, were true?
This year, rather than putting on a performance, Second Face Theatre Company are going on a ghost hunt.
Rumours have circulated for years that the Rondo Theatre is haunted.
Staff, volunteers and audience members alike have reported unexplained noises, disembodied voices and ghostly apparitions.
Second Face Theatre Company are fast creating a reputation for producing innovative, exciting new theatre. But this is no regular production.
Now they have put together a team of intrepid ghost hunters to find out if the rumours are true, and what better time is there than Hallowe'en to investigate? Are you brave enough to join the hunt?
The investigation will take place over a week with a special investigation at midnight on Friday, October 31.
This event is definitely not for the faint hearted, but if you're brave enough, maybe you can help get to the bottom of what haunts the Rondo Theatre.
The Father, winner of three Moliere Awards (France's highest theatrical honour) including best play 2014, has its UK premiere in Bath's Ustinov Studio next week. It opens today (Thursday, October 16) and runs for a month.
Florian Zeller's black comedy about the relationship between an elderly father and his daughter, stars Kenneth Cranham, Lia Williams and Brian Doherty.
Newly translated by Academy Award-winning Christopher Hampton, in a special commission by the Ustinov.
Now 80 years old, Andre was once a tap dancer. He lives with his daughter Anne and her husband Antoine. Or was he an engineer whose daughter Anne lives in London with her new lover, Pierre?
The thing is, he is still wearing his pyjamas, and he can't find his watch. He is starting to wonder if he is losing control.
Andre is played by one of the country's most illustrious actors, Kenneth Cranham.
On screen his credits range from the title role in Shine On Harvey Moon, to Maleficent, Hot Fuzz, Oliver! and Hellbound: Hellraiser II.
Lia Williams' extensive stage credits include Oleanna, Old Times, A Streetcar Named Desire and she received a Tony Award nomination for Skylight.
Brian Doherty returns to the Ustinov Studio following the hugely acclaimed A Steady Rain in the Ustinov's American Season 2014.
Colin Tierney, also returns to Bath having played the lead role in Liverpool Everyman's production of The Misanthrope.
