Ghost Train due at Exchange

Published: 24 April 2015
Reporter: David Upton

The Ghost Train

Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester and Told by an Idiot continue their collaboration with a new production of Arnold Ridley’s The Ghost Train; they previously worked together on You Can’t Take It With You and Too Clever By Half.

The production opens on May 19, with previews from May 14, and runs until June 20.

Told by an Idiot brings its flair to this classic ghost story.

A group of passengers are left stranded at a remote railway station, facing the prospect of a night in the waiting room. But when the old stationmaster warns them about the phantom train that haunts the tracks after dark, the evening starts to take one chilling turn after another.

A ghostly driver, sudden deaths—and a travelling parrot—make this 1920s thriller an unnervingly-hilarious exploration of the capacity for belief in the supernatural.

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