A Warning to the Curious: The Brewery

Monday 1st February 2010

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Crackerjack rating: 8 / 10.

A cold clear winter’s night – with a full moon outside. On stage, a dark figure, dimly lit by a single candle, sits slumped in an armchair. The figure begins to stir, and the scene is set for the telling of more ghost stories from M R James.

This is part of a short run of double-bills of one-man performances of the author’s tales of the supernatural by the deceptively benign Robert Lloyd Parry, who begins this reading with The Ash Tree, an account of the singularly unpleasant revenge from a victim of the witch trials of some 350 years ago.

From the events related here she was undoubtedly guilty. The moral of the tale: never leave your bedroom window open in a country mansion if there is a large tree just outside it. The second story Oh Whistle, And I’ll Come To You… describes the experience of an innocent and unwitting Cambridge professor whose golfing weekend is rudely disturbed by something from the ancient past.

Mr Lloyd Parry is an atmospheric storyteller and successfully evokes the increasing fear and tension arising from the scarcely physical but still malevolent influence that haunts this tale.

Pete Taberner

This is a Crackerjack review of Nunkie Theatre Company present Oh, Whistle..... Do you agree? Rate and review this event.