A PLEASING TERROR:
TWO GHOST STORIES BY M R JAMES
Performed by Robert Lloyd Parry
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***** Wonderful, magical storytelling. A pleasing reminder that the spoken word can be as spine-chilling as anything in the cinema . . .
The Daily Mail
This critically acclaimed one-man show is an atmospheric retelling of two of the earliest and greatest tales by
M R James - the master of the English ghost story.
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 . . .
A Pleasing Terror has been performed over 100 times since premiering in M R James old office in the Fitzwilliam Museum in December 2005. Many performances have been in venues closely associated with the author: Eton College, Great Livermere Church in Suffolk, the Fitzwilliam Museum, and the Provosts Lodge and Chapel of King's College, Cambridge.
A Pleasing Terror was nominated for the 2006 Dracula Society Hamilton Deane Award.
Suitable for ages 13+
Performance lasts approx 100 minutes including interval.
WARNING: CONTAINS MOMENTS OF PLEASING TERROR
