theatre

Robert Lloyd Parry: A Pleasing Terror

At Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough · 1 performance from Wed 9 Dec to Wed 9 Dec.

Over 120 years 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…