This production comes from the mind of award-winning actor-director Stephen Oliver, who is the play’s writer and director. ‘The Haunting’ borrows inspiration from real ghost stories from Malta, hair-raising poetry, and theatrical excerpts. This combined with seat-of-the-pants effects and wrap-around sound makes for an experience so scarily immersive you’ll be afraid to sleep with the lights off. The cast will feature Edward Caruana Galizia, Victor Debono, Michael Mangion, Cassandra Spiteri, Edward Thorpe, and Isabel Warrington.

Ironically, the Manoel Theatre itself has its own share of supernatural mystery and rumour of ghost activity surrounding it. This comes to no surprise considering it is the third oldest working theatre in Europe, having been around for almost 300 years now. Some accounts have claimed to witness a shadowy figure sit down in Box 1, while performers have reported doors slamming open and closed deep backstage. However, the most common and perhaps most creepy rumour is that of a woman singing lullabies at night. Many believe the voice belongs to the mistress of Grand Master de Vilhena, who built the theatre in 1732.