OLIVIER Award-winning theatre company Papatango comes to Dorset with a new version of Robert Wentall’s classic ghost story, The Watch House, at Poole Lighthouse on Saturday 26th October, Dorchester Corn Exchange on Sunday 27th, Swanage’s Mowlem Theatre on Tuesday 29th, the Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis, on Wednesday 30th and the Barnfkeld Theatre, Exeter on 5th and 6th November.

“There’s a legend about the Watch House. Scrape beneath the whitewash and you’ll find terror. You’ll find him.” Once a coastguard station renowned for daring rescues, the old Watch House is now all but abandoned. Just like Anne, dumped here while her parents sort their divorce. She’s never felt more alone. But she isn’t …

Sunk deep in the past is a secret which threatens everything. Only Anne can stop it. Catapulted on an adventure through graveyards, discos and shipwrecks, she and her eccentric crew must uncover the truth before it’s too late.

Papatango Theatre specialises in championing new playwrights, especially those who might otherwise lack pathways into the theatre. Each year, the company provides free training, performances or publication to more than 4,000 people, as well as bursaries and seed funding to help them to make or share in new theatre – “because all you need is a story.”