The Child in the Snow

Kids’ author Piers Torday is having a bumper Christmas in London’s theatres. His own haunting seasonal story ‘There May be a Castle’ is adapted at the Little Angel this holidays. And he continues his recent tradition of penning the Wilton’s Christmas show. Following on from ‘The Box of Delights’ and  ‘Christmas Carol’, here comes ‘The Child in the Snow’, the first-ever stage version of Elizabeth Gaskell’s classic Victorian ghost story ‘The Old Nurse’s Tale’. Transposed almost half a century after Gaskell wrote it, Torday’s version is set in 1918, and stars Debbie Chazen as a nurse returning from the First World War, who engages in a seance that unlocks troubling memories of a lonely childhood on the cold Northumbrian moors. Directed by Unicorn Theatre boss Justin Audibert, it’s suitable for ages 12-plus.