A spooky story for Christmas

SUPERNATURAL chills will be on offer at The Brindley in Runcorn this December in the swing of the festive season.

Following in the great tradition of the Yuletide ghost stories, Christmas Gothic will be performed on stage in The Brindley Studio.

The play is a dark celebration of the period and presents it as a time to remember the past, celebrate the present, and look to the future – ‘a time of feasts and festivities, holly and mistletoe, visits and visitations and a time of ghosts’.

A Brindley spokesman said: “Come in from the cold and enter into the Christmas spirit as a dark and spectral woman tells haunting tales of the festive season, lighting a candle to the frailties of human nature and illuminating the cold and chilling depths of the bleak, wintry dark.

“Following the international touring success that was Female Gothic, Dyad Productions resurrects a Victorian tradition by presenting three seasonal tales of terror to scintillate the gooseflesh for dark Christmas nights.

“Described by Three Weeks as ‘a macabre masterpiece – ghostly, grisly and gorgeous. Don’t miss it’, the play is adapted and performed by Rebecca Vaughan ( Dalloway, Austen’s Women, I, Elizabeth, Female Gothic) and directed by Elton Townend Jones ( Dalloway and The Unremarkable Death Of Marilyn Monroe).”

Tickets are £14, £12 concessions, from www. thebrindley.org.uk and the box office on 0151 907 8360.