Frome Drama Club’s production of ‘The Ghost Train’ opens next Thursday, 6th April at the Merlin Theatre.
The play revolves around a party of assorted railway travellers who find themselves stranded in the waiting room of an isolated country station in the evening.
The station master tries to get them to leave as he is closing the station for the night.
Philip de Glanville, who plays Saul the Station Master says, “The train on which the hapless travellers arrive has been delayed because some idiot pulled the communication cord and they have missed their connection to Truro.
“As a result, they are stranded until the next train at 7am but Saul is most reluctant to let them stay the night in the station. He explains that this is because the place is haunted by the ghosts of passengers killed in a ghastly accident 20 years before.
“At their insistence, and apparently very much against his better judgement, he tells them the ghost story by the light of a hissing gas-lamp and a dying coal-fire. Despite all Saul’s best efforts to scare them off, they do of course stay, and we watch the ghostly events play out, very much as he had warned them they would.”
The strangers, including a newly married couple (Django Lewis-Clark and Isabel Brewster) and a single lady with a parrot (Lesley Swinburn), not to mention the idiot who pulled the communication cord (David North) are thrown together in the station waiting room, with a variety of escalating dramatic incidents, combined with a heightening level of tension as the threat of the spectral train – will the Ghost Train come?
And who are the three strangers who turn up at the station in the middle of the night?
You will have to go and see it to find out!
The Ghost Train is at the Merlin Theatre on Thursday 6th, Friday 7th and Saturday 8th April at 7.45pm. Tickets are £10 (£8 conc.) and available from the Merlin box office on 465949 or online at www.merlintheatre.co.uk
