The Strangers Guide: A Gothic Story. Theatrical Perambulation

Join the Sarah Siddons Fan Club Theatre in its latest street theatre, part of the Jane Austen 250 events. In 1793 Jane Austen visited Southampton in search of adventure and with a liking for Gothic novels that were to inspire Northanger Abbey, she was following in the footsteps of the founders of the Gothic movement Horace Walpole & Thomas Grey who had visited Southampton in search of ghostly inspiration. Join The Sarah Siddons Fan Club Theatre for a jaunt around Old Southampton uncovering tales of ghosts, guillotines, and gruesome stories