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 11th and Saturday 12th 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.