“Wonderful, magical storytelling”
The Daily Mail
Over a century after they were first published, the ghost stories of M R James retain their power to terrify and amuse. This gripping one man show retells two of the earliest and eeriest.
In Canon Alberic’s Scrap-book, a young Cambridge antiquary discovers the devil in the details of an old book in a medieval town in the French Pyrenees…
In The Mezzotint a ghoulish revenge is enacted within a work of art, before the helpless eyes of a museum curator in Oxford…
WARNING: CONTAINS MOMENTS OF PLEASING TERROR.
Produced by Nunkie Theatre and performed by R M Lloyd Parry
Suitable for ages 13+
Dates & Times
Derby Hall @ The Met
A Pleasing Terror
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