Ghost tales by candlelight

Published: 15 September 2019
Reporter: David Upton

Robert Lloyd Parry as M R James Credit: Shelagh Bidwell

Robert Lloyd Parry returns to The Lowry in Salford October 26 with Dead Men's Eyes - Two Ghost Stories by M R James, two tales by Montague Rhodes James, master of the English ghost story.

In A View from a Hill, a pair of old binoculars reveals the gruesome history behind an idyllic stretch of English landscape. In The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, a treasure-seeker comes face-to-face with unspeakable horror at the bottom of an ancient well.

James wrote them to perform at Christmas to friends in Cambridge in the years leading up to World War One. This one-man show gives theatregoers the chance to experience them in the manner in which they were originally enjoyed: told by candlelight.

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