Ghost Light – the Space @ Niddrie St
In 1865's London, aspiring author Henry Webster befriends Edward Price at the local Ghost Club. The latter tells Henry about a real haunting at a nearby lodging-house, where the ghosts of two young children apparently wander the house in search of light... The two men decide to investigate.
Orange Works' Ghost Light is a classic ghost story, being set in Victorian England, including candlelight wanderings, ghostly children's chants and vengeful spirits. It even name-checks the most famous ghost-story writer of the era, Charles Dickens (well, at least for A Christmas Carol and The Signalman). This gives the production a somewhat predictable quality, though not entirety in a negative way: these tropes are classics for a reason, and the cast are good-storytellers, their voices being vi...