FOR THEIR spring production, the Helmsley 1812 Company are presenting Patrick Hamilton’s ‘Gaslight’.
The play offers us a fog-bound London in 1880 where, in the home of Jack and Bella Manningham, unease gradually turns into something much more sinister.
The small cast includes the well-known faces of Lynn Gosling as the housekeeper and David Pike, who plays the avuncular, retired policeman.
New to the society is Ivan Limon, as the husband. Sophie Brown (last seen as Snow White in the panto) transforms into the unfortunate Bella, and lastly, Becca Silk has neatly slipped from Youth Theatre’s ‘Bugsy Malone’ into the seductive young maid in the 1812’s Victorian thriller. The original choice had been Priestley’s ‘An Inspector Calls’ but due to difficulties in obtaining performance rights to this, and in order to keep to a similar period and style, ‘Gaslight’ was chosen.
‘Gaslight’ is taking place at Helmsley Arts Centre from Wednesday, April 19 to Saturday, April, 22 at 7.30pm. Tickets are available from the Box Office on 01439 771 700 or on the website at www.helmsleyarts.co.uk
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