Count Magnus - Candle-Lit Ghost Stories for Halloween
The Constitutional, 51 Town Street, Farsley, Leeds, LS28 5HX
£12.50 + Booking Fee. Doors 7pm. Show 8pm.
Two spine-chillers by M R James, the master of the English Ghost Story, performed in candlelight by Robert Lloyd Parry of Nunkie Theatre, who appeared as the author in Mark Gatiss’s BBC2 Documentary ‘M R James: Ghost Writer.’
The ghost stories of M R James amuse and terrify as powerfully today as when they were first written over a century ago. Nunkie Theatre Company brings two of these classic spinechillers to life, in a return visit to The Constitutional.
In "Count Magnus" a travel-writer’s over-inquisitiveness leads to a diabolical chase from darkest Sweden to rural Essex. Denmark is the setting for "Number 13", where a hotel room with the famously unlucky number, conceals a ghastly, baffling secret.
★★★★ ‘Lloyd Parry is always absorbing, and catches the sense of dread that gives James his originality.’ - THE TIMES