Carnesky's Ghost Train Marisa Carnesky talks about Carnesky's Ghost Train

From the outside Carnesky's Ghost Train looks like the kind of ride you'd find at any fairground.

Inside take nothing at face value. As the train weaves its way round several circuits, you find yourself in the company of disturbed souls. Women trapped behind bars and windows and doors with only the rattling of the train and the cleverly produced ghosts for company.

Artistic Director Marisa Carnesky said that the cast were women from different generations of Eastern European migration to Britain and that it is about people between two places looking at cultural displacement as a theme. I'll have to take her word for it as, to be honest, I didn't really get it.

Carnesky's Ghost Train

Yes, I had sympathy for these women, but I found little to explain what there problem really was. Don't get me wrong the whole experience, production and performance was spot on and Paul Kieve's illusions were stunning and worthy of a visit.

In fact the illusions are the real stars of the show with ghostly figures, the woman that's been sawn in half and a particularly impressive piece involving one of the performers swallowing live doves. But the finale is a real jaw-dropper on the scale of any great theatrical twist.

The Ghost Train is only here until Sunday, so don't miss this one-way trip of a death-time!

Richard Fair

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