Tickets £18 | Concessions £14 (Full-time Education, NHS and Universal Credit)

by Patrick Hamilton

Wednesday 8th July - Saturday 11th July 7:30pm

Matinee Saturday 11th 2:00pm

Bella is trapped in an unhappy marriage to a cruel manipulative husband. Help arrives unexpectedly one evening in the form of a retired detective, Sergeant Rough. He is investigating an unsolved crime; the brutal throttling of Alice Barlow - known as “The Cabman’s Friend”, a wealthy eccentric widow - more than twenty years before. The case has continued to haunt Sergeant Rough.

He seeks Bella’s assistance in his quest for answers and justice because the murder took place in the very same house in which Bella now lives.

Gaslight, written by the novelist and playwright Patrick Hamilton in 1938, appears to be the first time ‘gaslighting’ was coined as a kind of psychological and emotional abuse. Perhaps more likely to be termed coercive control nowadays, the underlying themes of this play remain desperately current.

Next Stage Theatre Company is thrilled to present this timeless play, directed by Claire Rumball (An Inspector Calls, 2009; Dancing at Lughnasa, 2024). Innovative staging in the versatile Mission Theatre space promises to transport you to a dark gaslit Victorian parlour as the chilling, emotional events unfold.