Ghost in the Play

"I am the costume designer for Murrieta Repertory Theater. Last year, our company produced a highly stylized and symbolic rendition of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians. This image shows the characters discussing their sordid histories, after hearing an eerie voice indicting them all of murder. (I took the original photographs during the final performance, with a Sony Mavica digital camera, no flash.) During all the rehearsals and shows, the actress who played "Vera" complained of cold spots on the stage whenever she missed her blocking, and felt a hand move her to the correct position. On the left side of the picture, just over the shoulder of the actress in the blue dress, "Vera", looking through a window pane, there is a face. Is this the helpful ghost of long-dead actor, feeding her lines? Truth: It is a distorted copy of the face of the actor seated near the center of the image, in the green smoking jacket"