Details

An Unsettling Evening features four of M.R. James' most famous ghost stories, which have been carefully adapted for the stage by one of Ireland's brightest young scriptwriter Andrew Hawcroft. Canon Alberic's Scrapbook follows an English amateur archaeologist on a visit to a remote French cathedral. As night falls, eerie, mocking laughter arouses his interest in the building, and a pale and nervous verger shows him a book that suggests an unpleasant possibility as to the culprit. Number 13 starts with a travelling academic staying in Room 14 at a Denmark hotel, who finds the quaint national tradition of having no rooms numbered 13 to be amusing?.until the room beside his becomes occupied in the night-time hours by more than the salesman staying in Room 12. Oh Whistle And I ll Come To You My Lad is about a schoolteacher who discovers an antiquated whistle whilst poking amongst a ruined Templar Abbey. Blowing the whistle attracts to him the increasingly undesirable attention of... Something. The final story is Casting The Runes. When a magazine editor refuses to publish the disturbing articles of a local self-professed master of the occult, he finds himself in mysterious possession of a slip of paper bearing strange Runic symbols and the English words... Seven days are allowed . From then on, he cannot escape the rising feeling that he is being followed... And not by a man. An Unsettling Evening aims to take you back to that childhood enjoyment of some classic ghost stories complete with chills, thrills and a few shocks.

Creatives/Company

Company: Bruce James Productions
Adapted by: Andrew Hawcroft