Theatre
Ghost Stories
When: 26 Oct 2023 - 31 Oct 2023
Produced By: London Touring Players
The West End cast of London Touring Players returns to Furzey Gardens with a new collection of spooky tales from the great Victorian ghost story writers, Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy.
These thrilling tales will be performed by a tremendous cast of actors straight from London’s West End. Expect live ghostly music and singing, psychological intrigue and even a few jokes!
The gardens will be lit up at night as you have never seen before. Gather around the fire, and listen to tales of the unexplained and unexpected underneath the stars this October.
About the show
The first story features twin plant hunters on their departure and return to the Himalayas. The second story features a precocious young girl, spinning ghostly yarns to unnerve her elder relations. The third sees an exchange between the ghost of Hamlet and the ghost of Banquo.
These stories deal in intrigue and suspense rather than blood and guts. They are suitable for adults and for children alike.
Featuring Pandora Clifford (Olivia in Twelfth Night at Furzey Gardens this summer and ITV’s Poirot), and Matt Wellard (Orsino in Twelfth Night at Furzey Gardens this summer). Our cast have appeared at the Almeida, the Old Vic, the Globe, the National Theatre and the West End.
You will be walking around the garden, led through the stories by the actors, and so you will keep moving and keep warm!
Information on the Performance:
The performance is wheelchair accessible. Please do contact us ahead of the event if you intend to come in a wheelchair.
This show is aimed at adults and children alike, but parental guidance is advised.
The performance is one hour long. Please bring a torch.
We advise you to come dressed for an autumnal walk; with coats, waterproofs, walking shoes or wellies. The walk will stick to hard paths for the most part as the actors lead the audience on a ghostly trail through the gardens. Feel free to bring shooting sticks if you would like to rest during the trail.
We classify the performance as PG. As all children are different, the show may delight one 7 year old and frighten another 11 year old. It depends on your child. The performance is based on classic ghost stories from Victorian writers. These writers deal more with the power of the imagination and suggestive and mysterious ideas, than they do with blood and guts. The show will be more mystery than horror. But they are ghost stories after all, so do contain references to death, murder and the supernatural.
Some spooky special effects will be created in the dusk/evening light at the gardens using lighting. Our suggestion would be that the show shouldn’t be too scary for the average 8 year old and above. But it very much depends on your child and whether they would find the idea of a night walk with ghosts too scary to begin with! The show won’t be any scarier than ‘Harry Potter’ or ‘Goosebumps’.
Do feel free to come dressed up as ghosts, witches or wizards!