Before The Woman in Black reaches our stage later this year, there’s another ghost story in town. It’s a tale of romance, of forbidden love, of love lost, and of two souls reaching out for each other in the afterlife. This is interactive solo theatre by techo-wizard Electric Dreams and the Dutch Kills Theater Company. It’s one of three self-guided walking tours that take you on an unexpected journey around Adelaide. Where Whisper Walk is a collection of short stories from both locally and abroad, and GAIA is a futuristic audio drama set in a post-apocalyptic Adelaide, Shadows of the Past is the most relevant of the three because it combines real local history with its fictional love story. We are introduced to the couple by spiritual medium Marianna (Ange Lavoipierre) on her podcast Beyond the Veil. It’s an unnecessary character but she sets the scene and moves us from the starting location into the early years of the Adelaide Botanic Garden of the late 19th Century. Socialite Amelia Edwards (Anna O’Byrne), poor of health, meets William Gardner (Nick Simpson-Deeks) as he tends to the flowers in the Botanic Garden. They are immediately attracted to each other and soon begin an illicit romance that crosses class divides. As the full-cast play moves us around the Garden, we feel their love, angst and fear as their eventual plans to elope go horribly wrong. As with the other two self-guided walking tours, writer Alexandra Silber has done an admirable job in telling the tale and having her marvellous actors bring the characters to life. Asa Wember is again responsible for the structure of the piece and mapping out the well-defined walking path that takes about an hour to complete. One of the great things about each of these walks is the ability to stand in the place of the action and picture it all the more clearer for being there. The walking music is all very serene this time, keeping with the dreamy romance that is unfolding in our mind’s eye. Shadows of the Past is more romance than ghost story so the supernatural element is unlikely to creep anyone out – nor is it meant to. But if it doesn’t reinstate your love of romance, it’s sure to reinstate your thrill of new discoveries as you’re led down the Garden path.