THE UNSAFE CHURCH - The creatures that prey on hallowed ground with Roger Clarke
- Brompton Cemetery Chapel
Description
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Pop-Up, Something A Little Different and Theatre/Arts
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Tickets from £12.00
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Sat, 27th Oct 2018 @ 17:00 - 18:30
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17:00 - 18:30
In a ghost story published in 1968 and recently adapted by Channel 4 in a Mark Gatis short film, Robert Aickman’s The Cicerones tell of an academic who is stalked and finally trapped by ghosts in a cathedral in Eastern Europe. But Aickman’s Cicerones, argues Roger Clarke, author of A Natural History of Ghosts, is the final part of an unacknowledged 100 year-old trilogy which was begun by Sheridan LeFanu in Ireland and continued by the Provost of Eton and King’s College Cambridge, MR James. This trilogy is of a particular gothic sub-genre which might be called ‘The Unsafe Church’. It is about the dead who watch the living, greedily, from their tombs on consecrated grounds, and seek merely the briefest of provocations to act.
Beginning with LeFanu’s Schalken the Painter, which is the tale of a dead merchant buying a living bride, continuing with MR James’s own favourite of his stories Count Magnus, where an academic unwittingly evokes a demonic aristocrat, and finishing with the Aickman’s Cicerones, Roger Clarke will show how these stories link written many decades apart overlap and complement each other, and how the dead hand of commerce, power and religion come together to predate on the living.
Tickets £12 including a Hendrick's gin cocktail.
ROGER CLARKE
Roger Clarke was for ten years a film critic for the Independent newspaper. He has also been a book reviewer for The Observer, Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph and many others. His book A Natural History of Ghosts was published to great acclaim in 2012 and the following year was both The Guardian and The Mail on Sunday book of the week. On top of four editions in America there have been German, Spanish, Japanese and most recently Korean translations of the book.
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The Unsafe Church
Includes a Hendrick's Gin Cocktail
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17:00 - 18:30 | £12.00 |
Location
Address
Brompton Cemetery Chapel, Entrances on Fulham Road or Brompton Road, London, SW10 9UG
Nearest Station
West Brompton (Tube)
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A Curious Invitation and Antique Beat
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4. Occasionally, events are cancelled or postponed by the promoter, team, performer or venue for a variety of reasons. If the event is cancelled, please contact us for information on receiving a refund from the responsible party. If the event was moved or rescheduled, the venue or promoter may set refund limitations. It is your responsibility to ascertain the date and time of any rearranged event.
5. The venue reserves the right to refuse admission and may on occasion have to conduct security searches to ensure the safety of the patrons.
6. Every effort to admit latecomers will be made at a suitable break in the event, but admission cannot always be guaranteed.
7. We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase.
8. Tickets are sold subject to the venue or promoter's right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its control without being obliged to refund monies or exchange tickets.
9. If this ticket is re-sold or transferred for profit or commercial gain by anyone other than the promoter, venue management, DesignMyNight or one of their authorised sub-agents, it will become voidable and the holder may be
refused entry to or ejected from the venue.
10. The venue may operate a No Smoking Policy.
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