Anonymous Players

 

 

 

 

Production Details

232nd Production - The Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley

poster_232

Presented at Lowther Pavilion - 8 to 11 February 2006.

Directed by Heather Cartmell.

 

 

 

 


Outline of Play

It is a cold Winter’s night.  At an isolated railway station in the middle of the countryside six passengers have been left stranded.  The Stationmaster has a haunting tale to tell.

What will happen before morning - will history repeat itself ?.
 

 

 

 

 

  Synopsis of Scenes

 

The action of the play takes place in the small general waiting room at Fal Vale, a wayside station on the South Cornwall Joint Railway, during the course of four hours in November 1925.

 

 

 

Act I

 

10.00 p.m.

 

 

 

 

 

Act II

 

11.30 p.m.

 

 

 

 

 

Act III

 

12.30 p.m.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Cast

 

Saul Hodgkin (Stationmater)

David Lee

 

Richard Winthorp

Rob Gemmell

 

Elsie (his wife)

Giuliana Nicholson

 

Charles Murdoch

Byron Jacob

 

Peggy Murdoch (his new wife)

Katie Moore

 

Miss Bourne

Di Prutton

 

Teddy Deakin

Gary Houghton

 

Julia Price

Emily Cartmell

 

Herbert Price

Chris Slack

 

John Sterling

Ian Edmundson

 

Jackson

Alf Betts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Stage Crew

 

Stage Manager

Chris Jones

 

Sound

Michael Ward

 

Lighting

Chris Beardmore

 

Set Design and Construction

Members of the Society

 

Set Dressing

Heather Town

 

Properties

Andrea Lee

 

Costumes

Eileen Stanning

 

Prompt

Shirley Croasdale