The Last Class

Derry Halloween 2026 at The Playhouse

The Last Class

She was never real. Until you believed in her.

Every Halloween for forty years, this city has called things up out of the dark. Every year it gets louder. Every year something gets closer.

The classrooms of Artillery Street emptied long ago. The children left. She stayed.

No name on any register. No record, no photograph, no proof she ever existed. Just generation after generation of children swearing she was there, and a building that has never once corrected them.

One man has spent his life in places like this, listening to the stories buildings keep. Tonight he’s brought an audience with him, and he wants to try something.

If enough people believe in something at the same time, does it wake up? Does it start listening back?

Part seance. Part experiment. Part late night ghost story, told in the room where it started. You won’t sit and watch this one. You’ll be the reason it happens.

Forty years of this city calling. Something has been answering.

Running time: approximately 60 minutes, no interval

Age guidance: 16+

Tickets: £15

Part of Derry Halloween 2026. Supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland through the National Lottery, and Derry City & Strabane District Council.