Catherine Tate and David Threlfall star in The Enfield Haunting, a new play based on one of the most famous poltergeist events in the world.
Catherine Tate, who is renowned for her TV, film and theatre work, will play Peggy Hodgson, a single mother who tries to protect her three children from something that is incomprehensible and deeply disturbing.
David Threlfall, who played Frank Gallagher in the highly acclaimed TV series Shameless, plays Maurice Grosse, a ghost hunter.
They are joined by: Ella Schrey-Yeatsas Janet Hodgson, Grace Molony as Margaret Hodgson, Jude Coward Nicoll and Noah Leggott sharing the role of Jimmy Hodgson, Mo Sesay as Rey, Neve McIntosh as Betty Grosse, Daniel Stewart as Writer/Old Man and Understudy Maurice, Stacha Hicks as Understudy Peggy and Betty and Jasmine Spence as Understudy Janet and Margaret.
The Hodgsons had no idea what a poltergeist was when, in the summer of 1977, furniture and toys started moving of their own accord. They were an ordinary, working-class family, who lived in a North London council house at 284 Green Street, Enfield, but for the next eighteen months became the centre of one of the most famous poltergeist events in the world.
Janet, the possessed sixteen-year-old, was nearly pulled out of a window. The local ‘lollipop lady’ saw her floating six feet in the air in an upstairs room and Janet was found fast asleep in a neighbours’ bed. There are tapes of Janet growling for hours in a voice that doctors said would destroy a sixteen-year-old girl’s vocal cords after a few minutes.
Paul Unwin’s new play is the story of one night in the spring of 1978 when events were approaching a climax. Based on the first-hand accounts of one the one the ghost hunters, The Enfield Haunting is the true story of what happened when Peggy Hodgson tries to protect her three children from something that is incomprehensible, deeply disturbing and is hurtling to a terrifying conclusion.
Maurice Grosse was one of the ghost hunters. A kind and protective man, he was determined to help the Hodgson’s but as the night unfolds it slowly becomes clear that he is searching for something that he is convinced that only Janet can help him find.
Ambassadors Theatre, London, West Street, London WC2H 9ND From 30th November – 2nd March. Mondays – Saturdays at 7.30pm
Thursday & Saturday matinees at 2.30pm
Tickets from £25
Box Office: 0333 009 6690
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