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     Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Highly recommended to anyone who can get there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDad77kLOQU Imaginative and genuinely frightening. Diffferent elements got to different members of the audience last night at the Playhouse. I especially admired the hideous M. R. Jamesian apparition at the final climax, but I was even more unnerved by things revealed by the torchlight in the first episode. The overall structure recalls that of the Ealing DEAD OF NIGHT, and other little references are scattered through the piece for the cognoscenti to pick up, but it's very much its own scary self. I'd see it again with pleasure. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 220.138.162.7 |
This looks very interesting indeed! Is it a full-length film, Ramsey? I must confess I hadn't heard of it before you posted this. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Ah! Jeremy Dyson mentioned he was doing this play with Andy Nyman when I saw him at Ilkley Lit Festival a few months back. I'd love to see this. Problem is, I can't get to Liverpool or London any time soon. I wonder if they'll bring it to any theatre near me? I hope so. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
I fear it's a play, Huw... | ||
| Coral (Coral) Username: Coral Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 90.216.127.4 |
I'd like to see it too. Jeremy Dyson does the nods to old Hammer and Amicus REALLY well. And I'll be up in North Wales in a few days. Nothing gets further west here than Exeter, but I should imagine if it does well you'll get it up there, Caroline. (Except for the Wurzels and Jethro,of course,they pop up with alarming regularity!!) | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>(Except for the Wurzels and Jethro,of course,they pop up with alarming regularity!!)<< Sorry folks, slightly OT for a minute, but does Fred Wedlock ("The Oldest Swinger In Town") still do stand up round your way, Coral? I used to like him!  Anyway, back to this play - as Jeremy Dyson is a Yorkshire lad I think, they might get to do it up here. In fact, I'm going to go and do a google search now, to see if I can come up with any plans to do it locally .. | ||
| Barbara Roden (Nebuly) Username: Nebuly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.232.190.19 |
Planning on seeing this in London on either the 22nd or 23rd of March; it sounds great! I had a bit of a fright when I checked the Lyric Hammersmith website and saw a warning that the play isn't suitable for anyone under the age of 16; Tim (being a huge ghost story/LoG fan) is keen to see it, but he's only 12, and I didn't want to buy a ticket for him and find he couldn't go (this is the boy who wasn't at all disturbed by the film version of SWEENEY TODD, which I had to cover my eyes for parts of). However, a phone call to the theatre has clarified that the 'under 16' warning is just that: a warning only, not an indication that under-16s can't go. So that's another London activity sorted! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.198 |
Good ghostly theatre is hard to come by. Zed and I saw a terrible adaptation in Leeds of 'Casting The Runes' a few years back. More recently I saw three stunning ghostly plays by Alan Ayckbourn: Haunting Julia was especially frightening. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.156.38.66 |
Reggie Olivers' 'Stage Frights' was hugely enjoyable. gcw | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
I'd say Tim should be fine, Barbara - it's scary but not physically graphic. We'd happily have taken our two when they were 12. | ||
| Barbara Roden (Nebuly) Username: Nebuly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.232.190.19 |
Thanks for the advice, Ramsey; much appreciated. We'll be going to see it with two or three other folk who'll be in London on Tuesday 23 March prior to heading down to Brighton, and I'm really looking forward to it. | ||
| Steveduffy (Steveduffy) Username: Steveduffy Registered: 05-2009 Posted From: 86.172.5.176 |
I'll be seeing this later in the month, in Liverpool. For that reason, I very pointedly didn't read a single word you said, Ramsey... | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.24.159 |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search/?q=andy%20nyman |