Arnold Ridley’s classic comedy-thriller was first produced in the West End in 1925 and has been a firm favourite with professional and non-professional theatre companies ever since. The play has been filmed three times and translated into seventeen languages.
The Ghost Train opens after a young man pulls the train’s emergency cord, bringing it to a halt and stranding six passengers at a small Cornish wayside station. Despite the sinister stationmaster’s terrifying stories of a ghost train, they decide to stay the night in the station waiting room. Very soon they start to regret their decision as ghostly, and not so ghostly apparitions, materialize. Finally, the young man reveals his true identity and the reason behind the night’s events is explained.
Setting: The action takes place in the waiting-room at Fal Vale, an isolated station on the South Cornwall Joint Railway.
Cast: 4F, 6M
Cast:
Saul Hodgkin – the stationmaster at Fal Vale station
Richard Winthrop
Elsie Winthrop – his wife
Charles Murdock – junior partner in Murdoch & Son
Peggy Murdoch – his newly-married wife
Miss Bourne – an elderly spinster
Julia Price
John Sterling
Jackson – a policeman
Running time: approximately 100 minutes (three acts)
Published by Concord Theatricals