The Signalman

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The health and well-being of our audience, our community and our team is our main concern, therefore things may be slightly different on your next visit. We are re-opening with a socially distanced capacity, multiple sanitation points and a one way system. Creating a safe environment has been paramount for our re-opening and we have taken numerous actions to ensure we are COVID secure!
Event has ended
This event ended on Saturday 21st of November 2020
Admission
£15 for Adults. £12 for students, disabled, and unemployed.
Location

The Space

Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
Mudchute 0.35 miles

A signalman is haunted by a mysterious figure standing by a train tunnel.
He’s sure it’s a warning – but what is it warning against?

The Signalman is a masterpiece of darkness and suspense, and far more than just a ghost story. Dickens wrote it the year after being caught up in a devastating train crash. The rail company tried to pin responsibility on the track workers, but Dickens refuses to blame or condemn. Published in 1866, The Signalman was Dickens’s final completed work, and could have been written for our times. It’s a world of zero-hour contracts, insecurity and hidden addiction, and at its heart is a man unable to talk about or cope with a crisis in his mental health.

Like all the great classics, it’s not about then, it’s about now.  And there’s a ghost…

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