From Hitchcock to Brattleboro: The Trouble with Harry Live Screenplay Reading

More than 70 years after Alfred Hitchcock came to Vermont to make The Trouble with Harry, Harry is headed back to Brattleboro — first on the page and stage, then on the big screen.

On Friday, October 23 at 7 p.m., the Latchis Theatre hosts a live, one-night-only, largely unrehearsed screenplay reading with a Vermont-connected cast including Tom Bodett (Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, Motel 6), Myra Flynn (singer-songwriter, journalist, Homegoings), Jeanine B. Frost (AFI alum, Vermont writer/director/actor), Chris Dorman (PBS’s Mister Chris and Friends), Willy Appelman (NBC’s Bring the Funny, Weston Theater Company’s Our Town) and Candice Taylor-Diallo (multidisciplinary artist, physician and founder of Creative Chromatics).

Actors take the stage with scripts in hand while a narrator reads the scene descriptions — allowing the screenplay to unfold live in the audience’s imagination.

Then, on Sunday, November 8 at 2 p.m., Hitchcock’s 1955 film returns to the Latchis big screen, followed by a community conversation moderated by Vermont filmmaker Bess O’Brien, with Jeanine B. Frost and Hitchcock/Hayes scholar Steven DeRosa, author of Writing with Hitchcock: The Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and John Michael Hayes.

Harry’s origin story lies first on the page: in Jack Trevor Story’s novel and John Michael Hayes’s screenplay adaptation, before Hitchcock brought it to the screen. The dark comedy follows a dead man discovered on a Vermont hillside and the increasingly complicated efforts of a collection of rather unconventional neighbors to decide what to do with him.

🎬 Watch the original film trailer

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23 · 7 PM
Live Screenplay Reading
Latchis Theatre, Brattleboro

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8 · 2 PM
Film Screening + Community Conversation
Latchis Theatre, Brattleboro

The two events are part of On Goldfish Pond Creative’s Hollywood, VT series, presented in partnership with Latchis Arts, with Vermont Public as media partner.

Details + tickets:
https://www.latchis.com/feature

Come for Hitchcock. Stay for the neighbors.