Category: The Ghost Train
How do you make the sounds of a train (and what’s the sandpaper for?)
You can’t stage The Ghost Train without the titular train, and 100 years ago they had no choice but to make effects live on stage. For our 100th anniversary we did the same: but just how did we make an impressively realistic train with seemingly random objects, such as a coal bunker, fire extinguisher and […]
The train now departed
Our fourth and last production for 2025 reached its terminus on Saturday night after four dramatic performances at South Brent Village Hall. The revised version of “The Ghost Train” by Arnold Ridley, adapted by Jocelyn and Nicolas Ridley, attracted a modern record number of people in our audience, who seemed to love every performance.
Extra seats added for “The Ghost Train”
Tickets are selling quickly for “The Ghost Train” and after a remarkably full first-night we’ve opened an extra row of seats for our remaining performances to give even more people a chance to catch it. The audience loved our first performance, and were amazed by the set and the live sound effects, with all the […]
Posters for “The Ghost Train”
If you’d like to print off and display one of our posters, or share info about South Brent’s production of “The Ghost Train” on-line, then please feel free to download “The Ghost Train” posters and images below. A4 poster Download a poster ready to print (PDF, 1.9MB) Download a JPEG image of the poster (340kB) […]
Tickets on sale for The Ghost Train
Tickets are now available on-line and at the Village Shop in South Brent for the SBADS November production of The Ghost Train.
Audition on 20 July: “The Ghost Train”
We are delighted to announce open auditions for “The Ghost Train” on Sunday, 20 July from 6pm to 9pm at South Brent Village Hall.
The Ghost Train: Call for Director and Producer to get on board
We’re celebrating 100 years of Drama in South Brent, and what better show to finish the year than a play first performed in 1925: The Ghost Train, by Arnold Ridley. SBADS has performed it before: way back in 1944! The Ghost Train will run from 20 to 22 November at South Brent Village Hall. It’s […]