Casting The Runes - Two Ghost Stories by M.R James

This show was rescheduled from 21st June 2021.

This show has replaced Gallery of Screams and been rescheduled to Tuesday 1 March 2022. All ticket holders will be contacted in due course and new tickets will be issued once the theatre re-opens to the public.

M R James wrote his ghost stories to perform to friends in the years leading up to WW1. Today they’ve lost none of their power to terrify and amuse. Now Nunkie Theatre Company with two more James classics, in another thrilling one-man show.

In Casting the Runes we meet the unforgettable Mr. Karswell – magic lanternist, occult historian and scourge of academe. It’s partnered here by James’s most neglected masterpiece The Residence at Whitminster in which a dark shadow looms over the precinct of a peaceful English church…