The Tell-Tale Heart & The Screaming Skull – Double Bill (11th – 23rd December)
Blue Orange Arts presents –
Ghost Stories for Christmas
A double bill of plays
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
A lone narrator draws us into the shadowed recesses of an obsessive mind, in this new working of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tale of tension and paranoia.
Drawing on other works by this celebrated writer, we are drawn into a psychological spiral of the tortured imagination.
Obsessed with the old man’s “vulture eye,” we are drawn into the meticulous planning of a murder, where the greatest enemy is the mind itself.
As tension mounts, reality and delusion blur, pulling the audience into a visceral stage experience of guilt, paranoia, and the fragile boundary between sanity and madness.
This new adaptation, specially written for Blue Orange Arts, transforms a classic tale into an intimate exploration of the darkest corners of human consciousness.
Set within the walls of a brooding seaside house, where memory and superstition intertwine, F. Marion Crawford’s seldom-staged masterpiece unfolds as a chamber-piece of psychological unease.
A skull seems to be screaming from beyond the grave. A warning of what is to come…or a banshee of retribution for half-acknowledged crimes? An old sea captain leads us along a precipitous path of guilt and hidden passions. As the evening draws on, rational explanations begin to fray, and the grim history of the house begins to take an ever more strangling grip upon reality.
The past reaches into the present, and the future becomes ever more sinister, in Roman de Fruscan’s chilling adaptation of this classic tale of gothic suspense. Not so much a ghost story, as a meditation of unwanted thoughts. A psychological journey which will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Dates and time of show:
Friday 11th December – 7.30pm
Saturday 12th December 3.00pm
Saturday 12th December 7.30pm
Sunday 13th December 3.00pm
Sunday 13th December 6.00pm
Friday 18th December – 7.30pm
Saturday 19th December 3.00pm
Saturday 19th December 7.30pm
Sunday 20th December 3.00pm
Sunday 20th December 6.00pm
Monday 21st December 7.30pm
Tuesday 22nd December 7.30pm
Wednesday 23rd December 7.30pm
Running Time
Approximately 120 minutes (including an interval)
Ticket price:
Standard tickets: £16.00
Concession tickets: £14.00
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL – The first 10 tickets of each performance are available for just £13!
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