Nunkie Theatre presents "A Pleasing Terror - Two Ghost Stories by M R James"

Music & Performance
Seasonal
29 October 2024
19:00 - 20:45

£12.00

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Event Description

A gripping retelling of two of the eeriest and most entertaining tales

Nunkie Theatre presents  "A Pleasing Terror - Two Ghost Stories by M R James"

"…he has never been quite certain what words he said, but he knows that he spoke, that he grasped wildly at the silver crucifix, that he was conscious of a movement towards him on the part of the demon, and that he screamed with the voice of an animal in hideous pain…"


A gripping retelling of two of the eeriest and most entertaining tales from the master of the English ghost story.


In Canon Alberic’s Scrap-book, a young Cambridge antiquary discovers the dark side of manuscript illumination, in a medieval cathedral 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…


'Robert Lloyd Parry restores the charm and pleasure of the original tales with his excellent and convincing storytelling…
- Cambridge Evening News


Tickets: £12
Concession: £10 (Job seekers, 65+, Students)


Suitable for ages 13+
Performance lasts approx. 100 minutes including interval.
WARNING: CONTAINS MOMENTS OF PLEASING TERROR

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