By Cal
Link: https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/deep-night-dark-night-2020/
Standard £15, Members £12, Concessions £5
Available until: 7th November 22.59pm.
Warning: The stories include descriptions of violence and
there is occasional use of swear words.
This is a selection of three ghost stories, each told by a
single actor. They’re very different in style and content, but all interesting
and creepy.
Paul Ready performs The
Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. At first, his matter-of-fact tone
doesn’t seem quite right for a ghost story and doesn’t immediately draw you in,
but as you listen more to his words, the way he’s chatting almost casually
makes the story even more chilling. Especially as his words sound like natural
speech, which makes the story feel real. He does show more emotion later in the
story, but that too is very clever because as his tension increases, so does
ours. As he talks about the heartbeat, our own respond by quickening. If the
emotion had come earlier, I don’t think it would have been so effective. As it
is, the story creeps up on you and isn’t that exactly what you want?
Andrius Gaucas performs 50
Berkeley Square by writer-in-residence Sami Ibrahim. This story examines
the different perspectives and truths to every real story. It’s a fascinating,
many-layered story and I love the way Andrius tells it. He’s delightfully
eccentric and full of personality. There’s such a great contrast between the
lightness of his narration and the darkness of the subject matter.
Jessie Bedrossian performs I am Karyan Ophidian by Abi Zakarian. It’s a compelling and
genuinely creepy story that definitely made me feel a bit uncomfortable!
Perhaps it’s especially creepy because it’s obviously set in our world. A world
of the internet. A world of lockdown. A world where we can’t be completely sure
how safe we really are…
