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Ghost Train, The

  • Arnold Ridley
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Mystery/Thriller, 1920s
  • 7M, 4F
  • ISBN: 9780573011559

A very silly young man accidentally strands six passengers at a small Cornish wayside station.

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama, Mystery/Thriller

  • Time Period: 1920s
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • High School/Secondary, College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre
Arnold Ridley's classic drama was first produced in 1925 and filmed no less than three times. 

A very silly young man accidentally strands six passengers at a small Cornish wayside station. Despite the psychic stationmaster's weird stories of a ghost train, they decide to stay the night in the waiting-room. Soon they regret this decision as ghostly and not so ghostly apparitions materialize before the young man reveals the true reason behind the night's events.

  • Casting: 7M, 4F

MISS BOURNE - a severe, spinster type of woman; raw-boned and angular; dark hair; dresses somewhat mannishly; about 50 years of age.
JULIA PRICE - an attractive, blonde young woman, probably in her late twenties.
ELSIE WINTHROP - a slender, dark-haired girl in her late twenties.
PEGGY MURDOCK - a slender, dark haired girl in her early twenties.
TEDDIE DEAKIN - a silly-ass, foppish Englishman, in his mid-thirties, with a tiny moustache and slightly thin hair.
SAUL HODGKIN - a middle-aged, rather heavy-set man of about fifty years, with iron-grey hair and almost white chin whiskers, his face heavily lined.
RICHARD WINTHROP - a slender, brown-haired, well set up man of about forty; smooth face.
CHARLES MURDOCK - a well set up young man in his early twenties; smooth face, fair hair and complexion.
HERBERT PRICE - a tall, slender man of about fifty; fair, bald-headed, and with a light brown moustache.
JOHN STERLING - a well set up man of about forty; smooth face, dark, with very dark hair.
JACKSON - a stocky man of about forty; fair, brown hair, smooth face.
TWO OFFICERS - middle-aged men.

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Arnold Ridley's classic drama was first produced in 1925 and filmed no less than three times. A very silly young man accidentally strands six passengers at a small Cornish wayside station. Despite the psychic stationmaster's weird stories of a ghost train, they decide to stay the night in the waiting-room. Soon they regret this decision as ghostly and not so ghostly apparitions materialize before the young man reveals the true reason behind the night's events.

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