
Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts
A chilling mystery unfolds when a young actress suddenly dies on stage during a performance, and Detective Chief Inspector Morse embarks on a gripping investigation. What begins as a suspicious death inquiry takes a darker turn when the legendary inspector, together with DS Lewis, uncovers a connection to sinister events in his own past, twenty-five years earlier.
Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts marks the first-ever major stage adaptation of the iconic detective. ITV’s long-running Inspector Morse, hailed by Radio Times as ‘The greatest British crime series of all time’, has inspired equally beloved spin-offs, Lewis and Endeavour.
Starring Tom Chambers (Father Brown, Strictly Come Dancing) as Inspector Morse, this original story written for the stage is a must-see for fans of compelling detective stories and thrilling mysteries.
Venue
Presented by
Birmingham Rep & Melting Pot
Based on characters by
Colin Dexter
Written by
Alma Cullen
Directed by
Anthony Banks
Set & Costume by
Colin Richmond
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Price
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Age Guidance
12+
Access Performances
Audio Described: Sat 13 Sep 2.30pm
A Free Touch Tour is available to book at 1.30pm before the Audio Described performance.
Captioned: Tue 9 Sep 7.30pm
Chilled: Thu 11 Sep 2.30pm
Cast
Tom Chambers
Theatre credits include: Murder in the Dark (UK tour), Dial M For Murder (UK tour), Crazy For You (Watermill Theatre & UK tour), Private Lives (UK tour), White Christmas (West End), Top Hat (West End), White Christmas (Sunderland Empire), The Rover (Young Vic Studio), Journey’s End (Courtyard Theatre), Blue Remembered Hills (Chichester Festival Theatre), Bloody Poetry (Brockley Jack Theatre), Pendragon (City Theatre NTY/Sadler’s Wells), October’s Children (NYMT/Hammersmith Lyric), Cyrano De Bergerac, Macbeth (both Derby Rep Theatre), Damn Yankeeds (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre), The Innocents (Derby Playhouse), Stepping Out (Electric Theatre).
Film credits include: Fakers (Faking it Productions), Meet Pursuit Delange: The Movie.
Television credits include: Midsomer Murders (ITV), Emmerdale (ITV), Casualty (BBC), Father Brown (BBC), The Great Train Robbery (World Productions), Waterloo Road (BBC), Holby City (BBC), The Last Will and Testament of Billy (BBC) and Elizabeth The Virgin Queen (BBC).
Tom also appears on Mellow Magic as a DJ Presenter every Saturday 10am – 1pm.
Tachia Newall
Theatre credits include: Liberation (Manchester Royal Exchange); Animal Farm (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Macbeth (Leeds Playhouse); Light Falls (Manchester Royal Exchange); Mother Courage and Her Children (Royal Exchange); Sylvia (Old Vic); Love of the Fireflies (Home); Scuttlers (Royal Exchange Theatre); Hamlet (Royal Exchange Manchester); Hoax: My Lonely Heart (Royal Exchange Manchester); Some Like It Hip Hop (Sadler’s Wells); Arabian Nights (The Lowry); The Manchester Lines (The Library Theatre Company); Aladdin (Preston Charter Theatre); Crystal Kisses (Contact Theatre); Aladdin (Imagine Theatre); Ghost Boy (UK Tour).
TV credits include: Doctor Who; Pennyworth; Dodger; Life After Life; Silent Witness; From Darkness; Vera; Scott and Bailey; Casualty; Waterloo Road; Coronation Street; Waterloo Road Series III-V; Young Dracula; Doctors; Coronation Street; Moving On.
Film credits includes: Dune; Dirty God.
Robert Mountford
Theatre credits include: Twelfth Night (Orange Tree Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Globe Theatre); She Stoops To Conquer (Orange Tree) The Merchant of Venice (RSC) The Habit of Art (New York), Into The Night, The Haunting of Alice Bowles (all Original Theatre Company tours) All’s Well That Ends Well, The Wind in the Willows, The Odyssey (Jermyn Street Theatre); The Winter’s Tale, Romeo & Juliet (GSC); The Omission of the Family Coleman (Royal Theatre Bath); Anita & Me (Birmingham Rep); Betrayal (Salisbury Playhouse); Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Merlin, Hercules (Chester Open Air); Macbeth, The Tempest, Enemy of The People and The Merchant of Venice (Tara Arts); The Black Album (National Theatre); Tagore’s Women, Gandhi & Coconuts, Bitched (Kali Theatre); Hamlet, As You Like It, Winter’s Tale (USA tours); East is East (Leicester Haymarket).
TV credits includes: North Square (Ch4); Holby City, Eastenders, Silent Witness, Torn, One Night, Casualty, Michael Wood’s History of India, Reverse Psychology (all BBC); London’s Burning (LWT); A&E (Granada)
James Gladdon
Training: Arts Educational Schools
Theatre credits include: The Score (Theatre Royal Haymarket, Theatre Royal Bath); A View From the Bridge (Theatre Royal Haymarket, Theatre Royal Bath); The Offing (Live Theatre); Skeletons in Cullercoats (Live Theatre); The Hound of the Baskervilles (Northern Stage); Hamlet (Petersfield Shakespeare Festival); Wormtown (The Customs House).
Charlotte Randle
Theatre credits include: Vardy V Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial (Wyndham’s Theatre); King John (RSC); COUGAR (Orange Tree); Yerma (Young Vic & Park Avenue Armory); Plastic (Theatre Royal Bath); Medea (Almeida); Birdland (Royal Court); Decade (Headlong); The Lyons (Menier Chocolate Factory); Public Enemy; King Lear (Young Vic); Mother Courage; Romeo And Juliet; Marat/Sade (National Theatre); All About My Mother (Old Vic); Don Carlos; Ighigenia; Sexual Perversity In Chicago; The Man Who Had All The Luck (Sheffield Crucible); Lobby Hero (Donmar Warehouse); Rabbit; Lingua Franca (59 E 59) Taming Of The Shrew; The Dispute (RSC)
Television credits include: The Kollective (Hulu); Call The Midwife; Shakespeare & Hathaway; The Coroner; Father Brown; Silent Witness; Holby City; Casualty; Doctors (BBC); Pistol (FX); The Trials of Jimmy Rose (ITV)
Film credits include: Dark Skin Bruises Differently (Blank Page Pictures); Rare Beasts (Western Edge Pictures) Dangerous Beauty
Radio credits include: The Other Man; Don Carlos (BBC)
Eliza Teale
Training: Eliza graduated from Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama last year, and also holds a Bachelor’s Degree from The University of Manchester.
Eliza most recently played a lead in Sean Mathias’s critically acclaimed production Swansea Boy at The Volcano Theatre, Swansea. Prior to that she appeared in Filumena, starring Felicity Kendall and Matthew Kelly at Theatre Royal Windsor.
Further theatre credits include: Elizabeth in The Welkin (Sherman Theatre, Cardiff), Grace in Mad Margot (Richard Burton Company) and Gale in Pomona (UMDS, Edinburgh Fringe Festival).
Teresa Banham
Training: Central School of Speech and Drama
RSC / West End credits include: The Herbal Bed; The Heresy Of Love; Measure For Measure; Speaking Like Magpies; Believe What You Will; Thomas More; The Blue Angel; The White Devil.
Other theatre credits include: Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (ETT); A View From The Bridge (Touring Consortium); Here (Donmar Warehouse); Acceptance
(Hampstead); True Love Lies; (Royal Exchange); Open House (Theatre Royal Bath) The Glass Menagerie (Theatr Clwyd); The Father (Chichester); Blood Wedding (Salisbury).
Received awards for playing Anna Karenina (Shared Experience)
TV and film credits include: The Gold; Malpractice; Roadkill; The Crown; The Project; Good Karma Hospital; Dark Heart; Call The Midwife; Vera; Poirot; Silent witness; Dr Who; Gentlemen’s Relish; Robin Hood. Utopia. Coogan’s Run; Monsignor Renard; Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare; Military Wives; No One Gets Out Alive.
Josh Katembela
Training: Josh has just finished training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) this summer.
Theatre credits whilst training include: Wild Honey, Gundog and Come From Away.
Spin Glancy
Training: RADA Foundation Course, 2024 BA (Hons) Professional Acting at LAMDA.
Theatre credits include: Forty Years On (Chichester Festival Theatre), Toy Soldier (Waterloo East Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Petersfield Shakespeare Festival), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Petersfield Shakespeare Festival), Twelfth Night (Petersfield Shakespeare Festival).
Olivia Onyehara
Theatre credits include: All’s Well that Ends Well/ Richard III (RSC), A Song For Ella Grey (Pilot Theatre/Northern Stage), The 39 Steps (SJT Scarborough/Theatre by the Lake), Nothing in a Butterfly (Synergy Theatre), Shuck n Jive (Soho Theatre), Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, & Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre York), Jack Lear (Hull Truck), Pride & Prejudice, Our American Cousin (Finborough Theatre), The Watchers & Tanzi Libre (Southwark Playhouse), Time and the Conways (Nottingham Playhouse), All Our Daughters (New Vic Theatre).
TV credits include: Casualty (BBC)
Film credits include: Locked Down (Paramount) and In the Dark (short)
Radio credits include: Braids, Consider the Lilies, The White North Has Thy Bones, Beyond the Grey Towers, Something Understood Made By Hand all for BBC Radio 4.
Creative Team
Director
Anthony Banks
Anthony Banks
Anthony recently directed the world premiere of The Gap by Jim Cartwright, Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling (London & National Tour), Mrs Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw (Bath & Chichester) and the world premieres of Lucinda Coxon’s Herding Cats (Soho) and Mark Ravenhill’s Blackmail (Mercury).
World Premieres of New Plays:
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (West End & National Tour); Games For Lovers by Ryan Craig (The Vaults); Hogarth’s Progress by Nick Dear (Rose Kingston); Twilight Song by Kevin Elyot (Park Theatre); Raz by Jim Cartwright (West End & National Tour); Bassett by James Graham (Bristol Old Vic); More Light by Bryony Lavery (National Theatre); The Eternal Not by Lucinda Coxon (National Theatre); Prince of Denmark by Michael Lesslie (National Theatre & West End); The Experiment by Mark Ravenhill (Soho Theatre & Berliner Ensemble); Herding Cats by Lucinda Coxon (Theatre Royal Bath & Hampstead Theatre); DNA by Dennis Kelly (National Tour); ReWrite by Tosin Omosebi (Westminster Hall and National Theatre); Cesario by Bryony Lavery (World Shakespeare Festival); Pignight by Snoo Wilson (Menier Chocolate Factory).
New Productions of Classics:
Dial M for Murder by Frederick Knott (National Tour); My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier adapted by Joseph O’Connor (Theatre Royal Bath & Chichester Festival Theatre); Strangers On A Train by Patricia Highsmith (National Tour); Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton (National Tour); After Miss Julie by Patrick Marber (Theatre Royal Bath); Grand Hotel by Maury Yeston (Embassy CSSD); Sweet Charity by Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields & Neil Simon (Embassy CSSD); The Hotel Plays by Tennessee Williams.
Associate Director at the National Theatre 2004 – 2014 commissioning and developing scripts for NT Connections written by: Samuel Adamson, Davey Anderson, Alia Bano, Hilary Bell, Helen Blakeman, William Boyd, Howard Brenton, Jamie Brittain, Deborah Bruce, Jim Cartwright, Katherine Chandler, Noel Clarke, Elinor Cook, Lucinda Coxon, Ryan Craig, Molly Davies, Katie Douglas, Nick Drake, Tim Etchells, Georgia Fitch, James Graham, Stacey Gregg, Carl Grose, Katori Hall, Nancy Harris, Matt Hartley, Jonathan Harvey, Lenny Henry, Craig Higginson, Christopher William Hill, Sam Holcroft, Anthony Horowitz, Dafydd James, Catherine Johnson, Cush Jumbo, Jemma Kennedy, Ayub Khan Din, Bryony Lavery, Michael Lesslie, Nell Leyshon, Anders Lustgarten, Sabrina Mahfouz, David Mamet, Patrick Marber, Douglas Maxwell, Alistair McDowall, Lisa McGee, Pauline McLynn, Conor Mitchell, Rory Mullarkey, Anthony Neilson, Luke Norris, Lizzie Nunnery, Ben Ockrent, Eugene O’Hare, Morna Pearson, Evan Placey, Ben Power, Anya Reiss, Steven Sater, Duncan Sheik, Kellie Smith, Stef Smith, Sarah Solemani, Meera Syal, Simon Vinnicombe, Paven Virk and Samir Yazbek.
Leads workshops on directing new plays and contributes to books and journals about theatre.
Studied English at Kings College London and trained as a director at RADA.
Set and Costume Design
Colin Richmond
Colin Richmond
Production Manager
Toby Darvill
Toby Darvill
LX Designer
Lizzie Powell
Lizzie Powell
Sound Designer
Beth Duke
Beth Duke
Props Supervisor
Kate Margretts
Kate Margretts
Fight Director
Sam Lyon-Behan
Sam Lyon-Behan
Assistant Director