Ghost Story by Mark Ravenhill
Lisa has breast cancer. Looking for help, she comes to Meryl a healer who believes in the power of positive thought. As time folds back on itself, Lisa and Meryl cross the line between the healer and the healed and discover that the world is full of ghosts.

'Ghost Story' is both a satire of the positive thinking movement and a moving story of a woman's battle with illness, set in a world where time is fluid and we can talk to the dead.

Lesley Manville / Meryl
Lesley Manville is a multi award winning actress who has worked extensively across stage and screen. A frequent collaborator with Director Mike Leigh, she has appeared in Grown- Ups, High Hopes, Secrets And Lies, Topsy Turvy, Vera Drake, All Or Nothing (for which she won the Critics’ Circle Best Actress Award) and most recently Another Year, due to be released in November. Other films include: Womb, A Christmas Carol, Sparkle and High Season.
Television credits include: The Queen, Cranford, North and South, Bodily Harm, Other People’s Children, Real Women, Holding On, Little Napoleons, Tears before Bedtime, Top Girls and The Firm.

Most recently Lesley was on stage at the Old Vic Theatre in Six Degrees of Separation and previously in All About My Mother. For the National Theatre she has appeared in Her Naked Skin, The Alchemist, Pillars of the Community and His Dark Materials. For the Royal Court: The Mother, Serious Money, Top Girls, Rita, Sue and Bob Too, American Bagpipes, The Popes Wedding, Saved and Three Sisters. West End productions include Some Girls and The Cherry Orchard.

Mark Ravenhill / playwright and director
Mark Ravenhill is an internationally acclaimed playwright whose first full-length play, Shopping and F***king, opened at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in 1996.
His other works include Faust is Dead (ATC, UK tour, 1997), Sleeping Around, a joint venture with three other writers (Salisbury Playhouse, 1998), Handbag (Lyric Hammersmith Studio, 1998), Some Explicit Polaroids (Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, 1999), Mother Clap’s Molly House (National Theatre, 2001), Totally Over You (National Theatre, 2003), Product (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 2005), The Cut (Donmar Warehouse, London, 2006), Citizenship (National Theatre, 2006), pool (no water) (Lyric Hammersmith, 2006), Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat (Edinburgh Festival, 2007), Over There (Royal Court / Schaubühne, Berlin, 2009), A Life in Three Acts co-written and performed with Bette Bourne (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh / Konninklijke Schouwburg, The Hague / Soho Theatre, London, 2009 and St Ann’s Warehouse, New York, 2010), and Nation adapted from the Terry Pratchett novel (National Theatre, 2009).
Mark is currently under commission to Headlong Theatre and has written the libretto for Ten Plagues, a new opera for Mark Almond.

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