VICTORIAN thriller Gaslight will bring an autumn chill to the air at Keighley Playhouse next week.

The gaslights cannot drive out the shadows in the home of the recently married Mr and Mrs Manningham.

Why do the lights mysteriously rise and fall of their own accord? Who prowls the attic at night?

What is the dark, terrible, secret lurking in Mr Manningham's past and where does he disappear to each evening?

And, most importantly, is Mrs Manningham losing her sanity, or is her life in deadly danger?

The Keighley Playhouse production promises mystery and mind games in the Victorian thriller by Patrick Hamilton, described as an emotional masterpiece.

The play follows the tradition of Jane Eyre and Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde by having Hamilton explore the duality lurking within the psyche of his characters.

Mr Manningham is causing his wife to feel she is losing her mind by making tiny, insidious changes in the home such as slowly dimming the lights.

Deborah Mouat, the director, said: "It's a psyche that harbours desperation and a taste for lust, greed and even murder.

"This production of Gaslight will be unlike any the audience has ever seen before and hopefully it will cast more than a dimmed light on the story at its heart."

The Keighley Playhouse production promises an atmosphere of threat and menace.

Throughout the play, the audience will experience a series of questions and have to decide which perceptions to believe.

One is dragged into the house and made to experience the same emotions as the bewildered and fear-driven wife.

Deborah added: "The audience is magnetically drawn into Bella's psychological journey, and must decide how much of what happens is real, and how much is in her mind?"

Gaslight runs from Monday to Saturday (October 12-17) at 7.30pm. Call 07599 890769 to book tickets.