The Light in the Mill

The play opens in pre-dawn shadows when a body is carried on stage and hidden in a storage area of a cloth repair room in a New England textile mill

The intruder flees as a group of millgirls arrive for work, grieving over the recent, mysterious drowning of a co-worker, beautiful Magda Thorn

Magda's seemingly unmoved mother arrives at the mill to demand money from her daughter's supervisor

What is the secret "arrangement" between the supervisor and the dead girl's mother?

Then it's discovered that Magda's grave has been robbed

The possibility of her ghost haunting the mill throws some of the millgirls into hysteria

There is a desperate confrontation when the body is discovered, revealing even more long-buried, shocking secrets, and ending in yet another death

The non-stop action builds to a thundering and disturbing climax

Single interior set