THE Gavin Robertson company returns to Dorset in March with three performances of a double bill of Dickens’ short haunted stories, with a comic twist! The Ghost of a Smile will be at Sandford Orcas village hall on Friday 7th, Powerstock Hut on Saturday 8th and Shillingstone’s Portman Hall on Sunday 9th, all at 7.30pm.

This the team who sold out at Artsreach venues across Dorset with the hilarious detective mash-up, Done To Death, By Jove! This new show has been adapted and directed by Gavin Robertson and is performed by Nicholas Collett, capturing the spine-chilling atmosphere of Dickens’ creepy tales told with a comic twist – like The Woman in Black but funnier, and with fewer people!

The Queer Chair from The Pickwick Papers tells the story of Tom Smart, who, sheltering from a storm for the night, gets more than he bargained for from a wizened and debauched piece of furniture!

In The Ghosts of the Mail, after a well-lubricated supper in the Old Town of Edinburgh, Jack Martin climbs into a compound containing the derelict skeletons of old coaches and falls asleep, whereupon he wakes as a passenger on an eighteenth-century mail coach, with three creepy companions …