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 - The Chill is Rising - Gallery

Natasha Trott as Mrs Dyer

George Coker as Trooper Potts

Oli Cox as Queen Victoria's Statue

Jonny O'Sullivan as The Naughty

Jon Neill as The Mourning Snowman

Jon Neill as The Mourning Snowman

Emily Lander as The Verger

Alice Smith, Nigel Wilson and Terry Curran as the Librarians

Jack Winstanley as Mrs Jarman

The Cast

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!

A Winter Haunt - The Chill is Rising - First Rehearsal

We have started to prepare for this year's Winter Haunt.

Now in it's fourth year, this exciting and chilling Christmas event has become something of a Yuletide tradition...

With 9 brand new scenes, new characters  and mix of comedy, history and horror prepare to be chilled...

Join us at Battle Library on Friday December 8th and Saturday December 9th at 7.30pm.

Tickets are £5/£4 (Library Members) and are available by contacting Miriam.Palfrey@reading.gov.uk

Nigel Wilson as the Chief Librarian will give you a chilly welcome

Emily Lander as the Verger tells us of a strange alternative Nativity story

Jonny O'Sullivan thinks he has escaped the Krampus

Jack Winstanley as Mrs Jarman lets you in on a secret recipe (with ingredients sourced from Reading)

Oli Cox as Queen Victoria gives insight into the history of Reading

The librarians prepare to beat the shelves...

Exiled Theatre at the Delaware Road...

The Mummers and the Pappers - A New Play coming July 28th at a NUCLEAR BUNKER!

Buy your tickets by clicking on this image of Mummers right now!

Tonight we don our tallow and hemp.

We dress the fool and dance the maelstrom.

Horse head cabbage head hare head ass head.

Rabbit head apple head mop head last head.

We are men of straw and string.

You walk your way to find answer or end.

We will not provide.

We will only shimmer half formed, crackling in the torchlight.

We stretch, we move in and out of dream.

The star on the floor, the antlers behind the branches.

We are the Mummers and the Pappers.

Buy your tickets by clicking on this image of Mummers right now!

The Mummers and the Pappers will be performing a new play written by Chris Lambert at Kelvedon Hatch Nuclear Bunker on Friday 28th July as part of The Delaware Road...

You can get your tickets here

The Delaware Road includes performances by:

DOLLY DOLLY, HOWLROUND, TELEPLASMISTE, RADIONICS RADIO, IAN HELLIWELL, GLITCH, SAUNDERS & HILL, CONCRETISM, SIMON JAMES, THE TWELVE HOUR FOUNDATION , LOOSE CAPACITOR, DJ FOOD

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...