It's alive! Set design, staging help local theaters scare up good times with horror productions

It's alive! Set design, staging help local theaters scare up good times with horror productions

FARGO — Horror is one of the biggest film genres in Hollywood and now local theater troupes are bringing the scares from the silver screen to playhouses with some Halloween-creeps over the next two weekends. While film directors have a number of ways to create big screen screams — like quick cuts, jump scares and technologically advanced special effects — theater directors have to create chills night after night live with a fraction of the budge…