Harleston Players

Ira Levin is a master of the psychological thriller as you'll be aware if you've ever seen Rosemary's Baby or The Stepford Wives. Stephen King has described Levin as 'the Swiss watchmaker of suspense', whose gripping plots and multi-layered dialogue (think The Sixth Sense - it all adds up, but you may need to watch it again to see how!) have set the standard for edge-of-your seat drama for years. Veronica's Room opens with a young couple, Larry and Susan on their first date. They are approached at dinner by an elderly Irish couple, who are struck by Susan's resemblance to Veronica, the daughter of a wealthy family who they worked for thirty years earlier. They urge Susan to visit the house where they worked to see a photograph of Veronica and her room. They then make a strange request: would Susan put on Veronica's clothes and impersonate the dead girl to ease the troubled conscience of her one surviving relative? And so begin so begins a nightmare of terror with Susan not knowing what is real and what isn't.