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• Opens Sat May 10 2025
• 150 minutes

Synopsis

by Patrick Hamilton 

Directed by Dick Hebbert

This amateur production of “Gaslight” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk

“Eerie isn’t it?  Now we are almost in the dark… Why do you think that has happened?”

The Manninghams are a well-to-do couple living in a large house in nineteenth century London – but Mr Manningham is an overbearing bully, while Mrs Manningham is living on her nerves for fear of offending her husband.  Manningham is convinced that, like her mother before her, his wife is succumbing to mental illness and she is terrified that he may be right.

In Patrick Hamilton’s atmospheric play, which gave us the term ‘to gaslight’ to describe coercive control, Mrs Manningham struggles to understand her husband’s abusive behaviour towards her – until one evening, while her husband is out, a stranger arrives asking to speak with her…

The production contains adult themes

Recommended age 12+

Thursday 15th - Saturday 24th January 2026 7.30pm

Matinee only on Saturday 17th 2.30pm

Tickets £14.00

Over 60s £12.00 (Mon-Thurs and Matinee)

Students £6.00

Greenroom £5.00

Wharfeside Theatre