Directed by Beth Morton | Cast - Esme Bayley, Julie Coombe, Afton Moran
A spooky and hilarious farce set in the reading room of Hillhead’s premier psychic with a million-pound prize at stake.
It’s Halloween night, and in a foosty flat off Byers Road, Hillhead’s premier psychic Madame Ann-Marie Bain-Marie is about to prove once and for all the existence of the paranormal and win a million-pound prize in the process…but not all is as it seems.
When a sceptical podcast host and a Victorian ghost called Greta get involved, the stakes could not be higher, it’s a matter of afterlife and death!
British Sign Language integrated performance on Sat 2 Nov.
Cast
Dates
Oran Mor, Glasgow: Mon 28 Oct – Sat 2 Nov
Creative Team
Writer: James Peake
Director: Beth Morton
Designer: Heather Grace Currie
Assistant Director: James Dawoud
JAMES PEAKE is an actor and writer based in Glasgow. His first play, National Express was showcased at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, where he trained. He has written pantomimes for the Kristian Thomas Company for many years, winning Best Pantomime and an award for inclusivity and diversity from the Eagle Awards. In 2020, James was awarded Best Dame at the Great British Pantomime Awards. As an actor, James has worked on stage and screen, including at Shakespeare's Globe, Theatre Royal Bath, Riverside Studios, and in Bread and Breakfast, part of Play, Pie and a Pint's Spring season this year. Screen credits include BAFTA-winning Aberfan: The Fight for Justice BBC/S4C, Holby City BBC and the multi-award-winning short film Spoilers.
BETH MORTON is a director, theatre-maker, and dramaturg. She was Artistic Director of Mull Theatre in 2020/21, and later Associate Director. Her most recent work includes Catafalque (Scissor Kick); Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin (Beacon Arts Centre), the critically acclaimed digital theatre season of new plays Strange Rocks & Undocumented and animation series Braw Tales (Mull Theatre), as well as short film Cailleach (Mull Theatre/ Sonder Circus). Highlighted among her other works are Pushin’ Thirty, Babs, The Infernal Serpent, Turns of the Tide, For The Love of Chekov and After The Cuts (A Play, A Pie and A Pint); The Domestic (NTS - Scenes for Survival/ BBC); and the critically acclaimed reimagined After The Cuts (Raw Material). She was associate director on Eric The Elf’s Chaotic Christmas (MacRobert Arts Centre); Glasgow Girls (Raw Material/Pachamama); and Janis Joplin: Full Tilt (Theatre Royal Stratford East) and has worked notably with the Tron Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Manchester Royal Exchange, and the National Theatre of Scotland.
