Classic Ghosts

T301653862
A lavish new production of two spine-tingling masterpieces.

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Archive :: production:T301653862, play:S789715225, venue:V32

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The Signalman/Oh, Whistle, And I'll Come to You, My Lad

The Signalman - Set in 1880, this is Dickens' exquisitely unnerving tale of a tormented signalman who is haunted by visions of impending disaster on his isolated stretch of line. Can a well-meaning traveller, who chances upon the lonely signal box while out walking, calm the man's fears before he spirals into self-destruction? Oh, Whistle, And I'll Come to You, My Lad - M.R. James was a master teller of the creepy ghost story. This is the story of Professor Parkins, a Cambridge academic on an out-of-season holiday at a bleak English east coast hotel in 1907. At an old graveyard near a deserted beach he finds an old bone whistle. Blowing the whistle he awakens a disturbing supernatural force...