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Charles Dickens' The Haunting
adapted by Hugh Janes
on stage at
Duston Community Centre,
Pendle Road, Duston,
Northampton NN5 6DT
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Telephone booking: 07399401955
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7.30pm, 20 - 23 November 2024
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Directed by Alistair Way
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A spine-chilling play by Hugh Janes, based on several original ghost stories by Charles Dickens.
In an ancient, crumbling mansion, sheltering from the howling winds that tear across the surrounding desolate moorland, two men stumble across a dark and terrifying secret that will change both of their lives.
When a young book dealer, David Filde, is employed by a former associate of his uncle to catalogue a private library, he finds an incredible array of rare and antiquated books. But as a series of strange and unexplained events conspires to keep Filde from his work, he realises that if he is to convince his sceptical employer that the mysterious phenomena he is experiencing are real, they must journey together to the very edge of terror, and beyond...
Hugh Janes' play The Haunting was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Windsor, in 2010
A Bunch of Amateurs
by Nick Newman & Ian Hislop
on stage at
Christchurch Hall
3 Christchurch Road
Northampton NN1 5LL
7.30pm, 19 - 22 February 2025
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Directed by Graham Breeze
Keen to boost his flagging career, fading Hollywood action hero Jefferson Steele arrives in England to play King Lear in Stratford – only to find that this is not the birthplace of the Bard, but a sleepy Suffolk village. And instead of Kenneth Branagh and Dame Judi Dench, the cast are a bunch of amateurs trying to save their theatre from developers. Jefferson’s monstrous ego, vanity and insecurity are tested to the limit by the enthusiastic am-dram thespians. As acting worlds collide and Jefferson’s career implodes, he discovers some truths about himself – along with his inner Lear!
Based on the 2008 British comedy film starring Burt Reynolds, Derek Jacobi, Samantha Bond and Imelda Staunton.
WARNING: This play contains strong language.