Today's
countdown to Halloween reading suggestion, or rather watching
suggestion, as it is a play: Shining City by Conor McPherson. I saw it
thirteen years ago on stage in the Lake District and loved it so much
that I bought the play that very night. It's a sober but very efficient
ghost story set in contemporary Dublin (the shining city of the title). In it, therapist Ian, former
Jesuit with a few inner demons of his own, is treating a new patient.
It's John, an ordinary man if there ever was one, claims to
have seen what seems to be the ghost of his recently deceased wife. As
he tells his story and as we follow in parallels the troubled life of
Ian, the existence of ghosts, whatever their true nature may be, seems
less and less implausible. In a world where normality is often
oppressive and corrosive, guilt becomes a presence, a force that can
break you. It's for you if you like psychological horror (like me) and it is all the more fitting for the season that Halloween comes from Ireland originally.
Saturday 21 October 2023
Shining City
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Sounds good!
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