Dusk is settling its heavy blanket over
the streets of old Edinburgh Town, the ancient graveyards are
covered with the early evening chill.
We are invited into the past, the present and the distant
past of a small highland glen all but closed off to mankind in the
winter months. The
folly of youth and the expectations of a young man's past are
explored by the ministers returning to a place that haunts him
still, his first parish.
Vincent Guy is seen as the Minister in
his maturity returning to the glen. It was there he met Miss Julie
Logan. He reads from
a diary he kept that long winter and narrates pivotal scenes from
the time.
He imagines himself entering the room and
sitting to write, we then see Alex Dee as the young preacher. Alex
relives some of the moments which are to haunt him in the future.
Vincent now portrays other characters from his past.
We see the memory of Miss Logan as a shadow
behind a screen, but was she a spectre from the distant Jacobite
past or was she a flesh and blood woman?
Rose Maclennan-Craig’s adaptation of
the classic highland ghost story by J. M. Barrie receives its
world premiere at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Richard
White’s direction added subtlety and intrigue to
the piece.
The setting and venue is perfect for an
intimate ghost story.
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