Last night, McCarter staff and family members gathered in the spookily decorated scene shop (imagine every skull and scary mask ever created for a McCarter production decorating the tables) for an evening of food, fun, and pumpkin carving. Members of McCarter departments who often work very different schedules were able to mingle and scoop out pumpkin guts together in festive unity. (As in this photo of Colleen Verbus, Heather Klein, and Heather Biehl–interns in, respectively, Marketing, Stage Management, and Company Management.) The designs ranged from the highly intricate to the cleverly inventive (I guess it’s not a newsflash that we have a lot of creative people working here). There was even a snowman made out of three pumpkins stacked on top of one another. Over thirty pumpkins were carved in all, and at the end of the night we lit them with candles and dimmed the lights to view them in all their flickering glory. Quite a sight! The finished products are now on display in front of the Matthews Theater and box office, so come check them out!

Posted by Elizabeth Edwards, Literary Intern at McCarter Theatre.

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