Killing Dickens: Live Immersive Performance
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£22 per adult Please note that all special events are non-refundable. |
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 Do we control our own fate? Or are such things decided for us? June 13th & 14th at 4pm and 6pm On 9th June 1865 Charles Dickens was travelling home by train, having holidayed in France for several weeks. Suddenly, the train was violently derailed, near a quiet English village called Staplehurst. What happened on that tragic day would change his life forever, exposing him to terrors which would haunt him for the rest of his life. Join us at the Charles Dickens Museum as we mark the anniversary of the Staplehurst rail crash — a real and harrowing moment that left a lasting scar on the mind of Britain’s most celebrated novelist. The performance begins with intimate readings from Dickens’s own letters, where he recalls the horror with vivid, trembling clarity. From there, we descend into the chilling world of ‘The Signal-Man’ — a ghost story born from trauma, echoing with premonitions and spectral warnings. Finally, we’ll explore Dickens’s final years through extracts of his maniacal public performances and some of the last words he penned, uncovering a man haunted, not just by what he saw at Staplehurst, but by the ticking clock of his own mortality. Expect an ethereal, gothic atmosphere — unsettling, theatrical, and powerfully human. Performed within the walls where Dickens once lived, this is more than theatre — it’s an immersion into history, storytelling, and the uncanny. Limited tickets available.
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13th & 14th June at 4pm and 6pm
Live onsite performance.