Things may be going bump in the night at Madingley Hall on March 27.
Not for the faint-hearted, a one-man show by Robert Lloyd-Parry (pictured) will present two terrifying ghost stories from the master of the genre – MR James.
The Victorian writer, who was provost of King’s College, Cambridge, became world-famous with his collections of ghost stories.
Two of his finest, Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook and The Mezzotint will be performed in the stately surroundings of the Saloon at Madingley Hall.
In Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook, a young Cambridge antiquary discovers the devil in the details of an old book in a medieval town in the French Pyrenees.
Meanwhile, The Mezzotint is a tale of ghoulish revenge enacted within a work of art – before the helpless eyes of a museum curator in Oxford.
Billed as ‘containing moments of pleasing terror’, the event costs £10 which includes a glass of wine at the interval to calm the nerves!
Meanwhile, the hall also plays host to the Alberni String Quartet for those who prefer a more mellifluous mood.
The Alberni quartet perform this Saturday (March 22) and next Monday evening (March 24), again in the Saloon.
Saturday’s concert begins at 8pm and includes Hadyn’s Opus 76 No 2 - Fifths, Wolf’s Italian Serenade and Beethoven’s Opus 132.
On Monday Madingley will resonate to the sound of Mozart’s K464, Beethoven’s Opus 95 - Serioso and Dvorak’s Opus 96 - The American. That concert also begins at 8pm in The Saloon.
The ‘Music at Madingley’ events and the MR James evening are being held to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Institute of Continuing Education being based at Madingley Hall.
Source: By University Of Cambridge
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