GASLIGHT, Featuring GAME OF THRONES Stars, Opens Tonight at Ed Mirvish Theatre

David Mirvish presents Patrick Hamilton's classic mystery thriller GASLIGHT, running now through through Sunday, February 28, 2016 at the newly reconfigured 1,384 seat Ed Mirvish Theatre. Media night is tonight, January 20, at 8pm.

GASLIGHT premiered in London in 1938 and immediately became an international success. In 1944, it was adapted into an iconic film starring Ingrid Bergman. Since then, the play has become a staple of theatre companies in Britain but rarely seen in North America. This brand new production will be mounted in the U.K. before travelling across the Atlantic to the Ed Mirvish Theatre.

As the ghostly living room gaslight flickers and the floorboards creak around her, Bella Manningham becomes convinced that she is losing her mind, as her mother did before her. With her husband away on business, she loses all sense of reality. Does the terror exist in her imagination or are dark secrets living in her home? The surprise arrival of a retired detective leads to a shocking discovery that will shake her respectable Victorian marriage to its core. A powerful psychological drama.

Northern Irish actress FLORA MONTGOMERY will star as Bella Manningham alongside GAME OF THRONES stars OWEN TEALE, Jack Manningham and IAN MCELHINNEY, Inspector Rough.

OWEN TEALE plays Alliser Thorne on Game of Thrones. On stage he has appeared in many West End and Broadway productions, winning a Tony Award in 1997 for his performance as Torvald opposite Janet McTeer in Ibsen's A Doll's House, a part for which he also won a Laurence Olivier Award nomination. He has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre of Great Britain, among many others.

IAN MCELHINNEY, Northern Irish actor and director, has appeared in many television series in a career spanning more than thirty years, including Taggart, Hornblower and The Tudors. In Game of Thrones he starred as Barristan Selmy. He has performed with the Abbey Theatre, the Gate Theatre, the Royal Court, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre of Great Britain. He directed the Olivier Award-winning Stones in his Pockets in London, Toronto and on Broadway, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Director.

Rounding out the cast -- EMILY HEAD will star as Nancy, VICTORIA LENNOX will star as Elizabeth and DERMOT MCLAUGHLIN and DAVID HAYDN will each star as Policeman.

GASLIGHT is produced by Paul Elliott. The creative team includes director DAVID GILMORE, set and costume designer DAVID WOODHEAD, lighting designer HOWARD HUDSON, sound designer GARETH OWEN and associate sound designer CHRIS MACE.

Playwright Patrick Hamilton was born in Hassocks, Sussex in 1904. He and his parents moved a short while later to Hove, where he spent his early years. He published his first novel, Craven House, in 1926 and within a few years had established a wide readership for himself.

Despite personal setbacks and an increasing problem with drink, he was still able to write some of his best work. His plays include the thrillers Rope (1929) - on which Alfred Hitchcock's film Rope was based - and Gaslight (1939), also successfully adapted for screen in the same year. There was also an historical drama, The Duke In Darkness (1943).

Among his novels are The Midnight Bell (1929), The Siege Of Pleasure (1932), The Plains Of Cement (1934), a trilogy entitled Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky (1935), Hangover Square (1941) and The Slaves Of Solitude (1947). The Gorse Trilogy is made up of The West Pier, Mr Stimpson And Mr Gorse and Unknown Assailant, which were first published during the 1950s. He died in 1962.

The Ed Mirvish Theatre is able to accommodate brilliant, big musical shows at 2,300-seats; smaller musicals at 1,800-seat configuration; and intimate plays at 1,384 seats.

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