You can find out more about us at bottlealleytheatre. We have been staging strictly strange work in increasingly odd and beautiful places since 2012. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, an adaptation of the novel by Shirley Jackson, is a gothic horror piece revolving around a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and their alienation from a hateful, suspicious New England village.īottle Alley Theatre Company is a DIY punk theatre company specializing in found space theatre. The film adaptation of We Have Always Lived in the Castle understands Shirley Jacksons novel as a tale of male abuse and female rage. Review by Courtney Thomas for Sightlines magazine, November 17, 2022 Something terrible has happened to the Blackwoods 6 years ago and something terrible is about to happen again when the observance of their routine is abruptly interrupted by an unwanted visitor. But the sudden arrival of their cousin Charles begins to open old wounds anew and threatens to send the family spiraling towards total destruction.what did really happen that fateful day six years ago? We Have Always Lived in the Castle is an incredibly harrowing story because of the former. Six years later, they have lead a solitary yet whimsical life shut away in their family estate: alienated from the hateful, suspicious occupants of their sleepy village. A fatal, mysterious tragedy claims the lives of most of the Blackwood family, leaving tightly-bonded sisters Constance and Merricat and their eccentric uncle Julian the sole survivors.
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