The abandoned children of Victorian Liverpool are brought back to life in Lyn Wakefield’s The Ghosts of Kirkdale which comes to the Unity Theatre on Friday 11^th and Saturday 12^th July.

Set in a workhouse-style industrial school in 1880’s Liverpool, a group of forgotten children struggle to overcome the hardships and harsh regime of the sinister Mr Goodridge who believes the children are a result of ‘laziness, drunkeness and vice’ and are mere ‘paupers’ getting what they deserve in this poignant tale of friendship and new beginnings.