for Autumn 2018

A new play for small scale touring and the rural touring networks

THE HAUNTED MAN

A new play adapted from the ghost story by Charles Dickens

It is Christmas Eve and the past and the present are about to collide.

Jonathan has recently moved into a care home. As his mind deteriorates and reality becomes confused, one memory stays strong; a memory of past love and betrayal; the one memory he wishes to be taken away.

A present is left: A book, a copy of Dickens' The Haunted Man. His carer Asha, reading the story aloud, invokes visions of Jonathan’s past life and with them comes a ghostly visitation, a phantom who offers a gift, the gift of forgetting.

The book and Jonathan’s life merge and the phantom’s gift rapidly becomes a curse. With the help of the chaotic Tetterbys, the Wild-Boy, the gentle Swidgers and a host of other Dickensian characters,  Jonathan and Asha set out to find a genuine, lasting peace and learn the true value of memory.

Performed by a cast of four creating a host of Dickensian characters, Kindred Theatre’s atmospheric new production of love, loss and friendship is a blend of candlelight, shadows, puppetry, music and theatrical storytelling perfect for those autumn evenings.

 The tour will be accompanied at each venue by an Audio Exhibition of stories gathered from intergenerational storytelling workshops Kindred are running in Spring 2018 . The stories are actual memories told by workshop participants and inspired by the themes and ideas from The Haunted Man.

For more details about our research and development for this show, click here.

Click here for more photographs 

tour dates...



19th October 7.45pm - St Peter's Church Hall, Simonstone
01200 428742

20th October 7.30pm - Dunsop Bridge Village Hall
01200 448201

21st October  7.00pm- Isaac Dixon Boat House, Lytham St Annes         ​01253 658443

24th October 7.30pm - Fallibroome Academy, Macclesfield 

27th October 7.30pm - Trinity Arts Centre, Gainsborough  
www.trinityarts.co.uk   01427 676655

30th October 7.00pm- Oldham Library
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-haunted-man-tickets-47669149710 
0161 770 8000

31st October 7.30pm - Lion Salt Works, Northwich
01606 275040

15th November 7.30pm- Dumfries Theatre Royal
www.theatreroyaldumfries.co.uk 01387 254209

16th November 7.30pm- Calderbridge Village Hall
01946 841478

17th November 7.00pm- Rampside Village
07871 080079

24th November 7.30pm- The Edge, Chorlton, Manchester
www.edgetheatre.co.uk/whatson/ 0161 282 9776
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2nd December 7.30pm- NB Now playing at - Friends Meeting House, Kirkgate, Cockermouth
www.kirkgatearts.org.uk  01900 829966

5th December - The Witham, Barnard Castle
www.thewitham.org.uk  01833 63110

6th December 7.30pm- Helsington & Brigsteer Village Hall
01539 568695

7th December 7.00pm- St Cuthbert's Centre, Crook
01388 765002

8th December 7.30pm- Middleton & Todridge Village Hall
www.highlightsnorth.co.uk  01670 772600

An Audio Exhibition  
Stories, Memories & Moments - A life Story Project

Stories, Memories & Moments
​We will also be touring an audio exhibition to each performance of The Haunted Man. This exhibition will be put together from a series of intergenerational workshops we will be running in Spring 2018. They are a varitation of the What's Your story? sessions we have run before and you can find out more about them by clicking here.

Kindred Theatre receives funding for The Haunted Man and Stories, Memories & Moments from Arts Council England 
For images and video clips of our research and development, click here