Female frights to chill the bones
Described by critics as ‘brilliant’, ‘exquisite’ and ‘beautiful’, acclaimed actor Rebecca Vaughan brings her new one-woman show ‘Female Gothic’ to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar tonight (Tuesday), February 12, at 8pm.
Audiences will find the stage occupied by a lone, haunted woman, who tells chilling tales of the macabre and terrifying, illuminating the curious frailties of human nature. Four eerie tales are told – three classic gothic horror stories, and the narrator’s own autobiographical story, which is woven in and out of the other three.
The Victorian fascination with tales of mystery and the supernatural created an enduring legacy of Gothic fiction; but it is often the male writers that we remember. Many thrilling and gripping stories from the great female writers of that era have gathered dust and been forgotten. Until now.
This dark celebration of female gothic is adapted and performed by Rebecca Vaughan (‘Austen’s Women’, ‘I, Elizabeth’, ‘The Diaries of Adam and Eve’) with Dyad Productions, directed by Olivier Award winner Guy Masterson. It took last year’s Edinburgh festival by storm, with The Scotsman dubbing it ‘a near perfect piece of theatre’.
