• The Character of Home
• Explore the Townhouse
  • The Fairfax Family
  • Building the Georgian Townhouse
  • John Carr of York: Architect
  • Eighteenth-century York
  • Secrets of the Stucco
  • Cinema Days: St Georges Hall
  • Memories of St George’s Hall and Cinema
  • Silver Screen 2017
  • The Restoration
• Explore the Collection
  • Noel Terry & his Collection
  • Furniture
  • Clocks
  • Silver
  • Artworks
  • Rare historic pieces reunited
  • What is a Candlestand or Torchère?
  • Candlepower

The Character of Home

CHOOSE AN OBJECT. HEAR A STORY. FIND THE TRUTH. 

Step back in time to the sumptuous world of eighteenth-century York for a journey through the finest townhouse in Georgian England, but with a difference. You get to choose the route and the order of the events.

Charles Gregory Fairfax, 9th Viscount of Emley, has bestowed a magnificent gift upon his only surviving daughter, Ann. He has built her a resplendent house filled with beautiful things so that she might have a bright future in a glorious society…but, this place is wrestling with darker concerns and the household is haunted by the ghosts of its past.

Your task is simple. Enter a room and choose an object. Each object triggers an alternative version of the past and from a different historical perspective. Remember… there are always two sides to every story.

Written by Paul Birch. Directed by Thomas Frere. Starring Edith Kirkwood as Ann Fairfax and Julian Finnigan as Charles Gregory Fairfax.

The Character of Home was generously supported by Arts Council England.

DISCOVER MORE...

CAST & CREATIVES

THE CHARACTERS

AUTHOR'S NOTE