Spooky Dickens two-hander is an ideal December ghost story
The gloomy mystery unfolds over the course of three nights, when the unnamed narrator climbs down onto the railway tracks, where a signalman is standing sentry in his box, staring deep into the gloom of a railway tunnel
The Signalman
The New Theatre, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Until December 15
Rating:***
It is surely Charles Dickens who must be credited with the longstanding tradition of telling ghost stories at Christmas time. Published in 1843 as “a Ghost Story of Christmas”, his novella, A Christmas Carol, used visitors from a spirit world to impart vital life lessons upon its parsimonious protagonist, Ebenezer Scrooge.
Even today, ...
