The Rumpus Theatre Company began their autumn tour this week at the Theatre Royal in Nottingham. This adaptation of The Signalman by Charles Dickens, which was first published in 1866 as part of the Munby Junction collection of short stories, is by John Goodrum, who also took the leading role. The production was certainly well received at our matinee performance.
The well-known ghost story may have been prompted by an accident at Staplehurst in 1865. Dickens had been travelling on a train which crashed with significant loss of life. Though he survived the incident, he tended the injured, some of whom had died. His son later said that Dickens never fully recovered from the event, and he died five years later, to the day.
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