The Lodger By Patrick Prior

Adapted from a story by Marie Belloc Lowndes, part gothic thriller, part horror story, part love story, The Lodger draws the audience into a dark and terrible gaslit world. Mr and Mrs Bunting, owners of a struggling lodging house in London, finally get a break when they take in Mr Sleuth, their first guest in a long time. While Jack the Ripper stalks the East End, terror grows as the mysterious lodger prowls the night and the death toll rises. "Out of the dark came a dream.... out of the dream came a nightmare." Diane Crane previously directed a Patrick Prior play, The Turn of the Screw, at the Venture Theatre in 2023.