Winter Haunt - Ghost Gallery - 2019

Tickets still available!

Join us Thursday and Friday this week at Battle Library at 7pm.

Listen to the last hour of the Bill Buckley show as you wander the Ghost Gallery below... Chris Lambert, Nigel Wilson, Jack Walker and Francesca Earley wax lyrical about this year's Winter Haunt... Listen here...

Jack Walker as the Boy with the Bomb

Alice Parker as Mrs Dyer

Francesca Earley as Frances Kendrick

Terry Curran, Amanda Giles, Jack Winstanley and Natalie Bishop as The Host and his Librarians

Oli Cox as The Maiwand Lion

George Coker as John Pordage

Noel Kosta as Thomas of Reading

A Winter Haunt - Shadows of Reading - Battle Library - December 6th and 7th

The Shadows between the Shelves have returned...

Join us on Thursday 5th and Friday 6th December at Battle Library for a spooky Yuletide treat...

A Winter Haunt - Shadows of Reading. 

Battle Library 

Thursday 5th and Friday 6th December at 7pm 

Tickets £5/£4 (concessions).

Tonight Battle Library is awash with Spirits.

Spirits from the past, the present and the spaces between.

Tonight you will take a journey. You will walk the spaces between the shelves, the routes between the worlds of fiction and reality, history and fantasy. You will meet spirits, some pleasant, some melancholic, some joyous, some wise and some utterly malevolent.

Join the Shadows Between the Shelves for a haunting yuletide treat.

A Winter Haunt - Thames Valley TV

We had a lovely time filming this report with Thames Valley News.
It really captures and celebrates the spirit of the event!

Shadows Between the Shelves - November 2015

The shadows return on Friday November 27th and Saturday 28th November...

Check out the exciting trailer by Oli Cox...

 

Shadows Between the Shelves - Week 5

Costumes on - lines learnt - things are starting to look very promising...

 

The shadows are gathering...

 

Jack Winstanley as "The Soldier"

Jon Neill and the Librarians beat the shelves...

Erin Tingle as Nell Wooldridge

The game's afoot...

Oli Cox as Thomas of Reading

Amy Rushent as Mrs Dyer

Erin Tingle being directed by Kate Abery

Elena Martin is The Survivor

Shadows Between the Shelves - Week 4

Beating the shelves...

The cast are getting to grips with their monologues and spaces this week. Next week they will be off script and in costume! Thanks again to the brilliant Miriam Palfrey for her photographs.

The Shadows Awaken

"I wish, I wish but it's all in vain..."

Controlling the spirits within the pages

Shadows Between the Shelves - Week 3 - Getting to know the site

There are some strange things happening at Battle Library this week. 

Thank you to Miriam Palfrey for these rehearsal pictures.

Shadows Between the Shelves - Week 2 - Shadows at Jackson's Corner

A busy morning this Saturday. Dressing a window with Shadows Between the Shelves goodies. Come down to Reading Town Centre and visit Jackons to discover more about this new play. The window display will be up until Saturday 13th December...

You will see artefacts, extracts from the play, facts about the characters and more...

Here's a little flavour for you...

Great big thanks to Reading Bicycle Kitchen and to Reading Central Library for all of their help and support this week.

Shadows Between the Shelves - Week One

First Rehearsal

 The first rehearsal was last night. We walked the route in the library and worked on the prologue which everyone enjoyed. We are looking forward to using the Gypsy Caravan, the two cellars and so much more... After this the cast tried on costumes and I took some pictures. So allow me to introduce you to some of the characters...

Looking forward to a spooky Christmas....

Shadows Between the Shelves - Coming in December - Spread the word...

Please share and spread the word - this is coming in December...