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             The play I saw was "The Babysitter" by Laurie Woodward. The one act play was performed and directed by the Hempfield Theatre Company.
             The plot of "The Babysitter" is about a teenage girl named Karen. Karen is asked by the Williams family, who are new to Karen's small town, to baby-sit their baby. Karen accepts the offer, even though the new family is kind of strange. When Karen arrives at the family's house, Mrs. Williams tells Karen that she is going to the theatre, not to check on the baby because she won't cause any problems, and not to tell anyone that she was there. After Mrs. Williams leaves, three of Karen's friends (Pam, Carol, and Sarah) show up at the house. They tell Karen that Mr. Williams told them to come and not tell anyone either. The girls think nothing of it and begin playing Ouiji. They contact a spirit and the Ouiji board spells out "Eyes at the window." The girls become frightened and start looking out the windows. After finding nothing, they calm down, and Karen decides to check on the baby. She goes to the baby's room, but there is no baby, no crib, no toys and no sign of a baby at al!
             l. Karen gets scared and calls the phone number that Mrs. Williams wrote down for her, but Mrs. Williams wrote down her own phone number, and Karen gets a busy signal. One of the other girls finds an old newspaper article on the coffee table. She begins to read the article and it says that the Williams' baby died while being baby-sat. Suddenly, Mrs. Williams walks in through the door saying "Bravo, Bravo!" and told the girls to read the rest of the article. The end of the article said that Mr. and Mrs. Williams later had died in a car accident. It turned out that Mrs. Williams was a ghost, and as she looked through the window, the girls were her play.
             Karen and her friends had a close relationship. They always did things together and they stuc
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