Anna Trevouledes wrote the play “Haunted” in 2010.

She’s 24 years old now, and the Hughesville High School alum is bringing the play to the stage this weekend.

Haunted is the story of a fabulous dinner party that gets unexpectedly foiled by another realm.

Ghosts are a common theme in books and stage plays about this time of year.

After all, it was Charles Dickens’ Scrooge that frightened and inspired many a reader and viewer over the years.

In Haunted, Elaine Ellington is an easy-to-frazzle host who loses control of the night when a ghost storms the dinner table and puts the mansion on lockdown.

Together, the party must go on a spiritual scavenger hunt in order to appease this specter and regain their freedom.

Trevouledes, daughter of Dr. Peter and Rose Trevouledes, said Haunted: An Original Play, will be performed at 6:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the Hughesville High School auditorium. Tickets may be purchased using cash only at the door.

A popular board game that also became a movie, Clue, is what inspired young Trevouledes to write the play.

“So I’ve been pursuing screenwriting and acting and performing arts on my own,” she said.

When COVID-19 struck, she didn’t want to go back to college until it passed over.

“I plan to go to Boston University,” she said.

In the meantime, she seized on the opportunity to direct with the skilled actors in theater at Hughesville High School.

“I wanted to write something for them and that original play that I was writing back when I was a kid kind of came back into my mind and this time it just clicked,” Trevouledes said.

The characters resurfaced to her over the summer, when she polished the original version.

“It just kind of started flowing right out of me,” she said.

Technically, Haunted: An Original Play is not the first play for the burgeoning playwright.

“I wrote two plays when I was in fifth grade based on the books we were reading in class so I don’t really know if that counts but technically it’s not the first play I’ve ever written,” she said.

As the play came together, the biggest challenge was to start to block out the scenes.

Haunted features a cast of nine and it’s rather fast-paced, running a little over 100 minutes.

The props include the rooms inside the mansion, with a wall and door in it built by a student at Lycoming Career and Technology Center.

For the most part, the play has been prepared by a skeleton crew, with help from the high school soundboard, lighting and local DNK Dance Studio.

Her mother and aunt will be on hand to greet the audience and hand out the tickets.

Molly Nesselrodt is the assistant director and has helped Trevouledes throughout the preparation for the performances.

“In rehearsal we threw them right into it,” Trevouledes said of the actors.

“We just kind of started working with the script right away,” she said, adding her fortune at having had most of the thespians in prior productions.

“I actually worked with a lot of them last year when I was the musical director for Cinderella,” she said.

The script for Haunted, while written and to be followed, allows for the actors to improvise.

“I would encourage improvisation into their process,” she said.

“They have free rein for their choices and it’s cool because they picked it right up,” Treveloudes said.

“They are making it their own and I’m so proud of them for that,” she said.