Haunted Shadows: The Gothic Tales of Edith Nesbit

Haunted Shadows is at the Godber Studio on Wednesday 21 October, a one-person show that brings together the gothic side of Edith Nesbit. Most of us know Nesbit for her children's books, but she was also a prolific writer of ghost and horror stories, and this production focuses on that darker half of her work.

The show is staged as a single performer on stage, with the writer herself imagining a return to the darkness of her own past. She recalls childhood terrors and retells three of her Gothic tales, so you get both the stories and the voice of the woman behind them. It's produced by Monkey with Cymbals and directed by Jonathan Rigby, and it runs in the Godber Studio, which is one of the smaller, more intimate spaces at Hull Truck.

If you've only ever known Nesbit for the children's stories, this is a different side of her entirely. The whole thing is built around that shift from the familiar to the gothic, with the childhood fears she wrote about taking centre stage. It's a one-person show, so the whole evening rests on a single performer carrying the stories and the framing around them.

You'll find it at the Godber Studio, inside Hull Truck Theatre at The Heron, 50 Ferensway, Hull, HU2 8LB. It's on Wednesday 21 October.