There is a dark celebration of Christmas at the Brindley Theatre, Runcorn on Tuesday 11 and Wednesday 12 December when Dyad Productions present Christmas Gothic, in the Brindley Studio.

The show is returning to the award-winning venue after a previous successful performance.

Christmas: a time to remember the past, celebrate the present, and look to the future; a time of feasts and festivities; of holly and mistletoe; a time of visits and visitations. A time of ghosts.

Come in from the cold and enter into the Christmas spirit as a dark and spectral woman tells haunting tales of the festive season, lighting a candle to the frailties of human nature and illuminating the cold and chilling depths of the bleak, wintry dark…

Following the international touring success that was Female Gothic, Dyad Productions resurrects a Victorian tradition by presenting three seasonal tales of terror to scintillate the gooseflesh for dark Christmas nights.

Described by Three Weeks as “A macabre masterpiece. Ghostly, grisly and gorgeous. Don’t miss it”, the play is adapted and performed by Rebecca Vaughan (Dalloway, Austen’s Women, I, Elizabeth, Female Gothic). Directed by Elton Townend Jones (Dalloway, The Unremarkable Death of Marilyn Monroe).

Tickets are £17, £15 from www.thebrindley.org.uk and the box office on 0151 907 8360.