List of Events
Twice Nightly
Freddie Francis has been a second spot comic for thirty years touring the country on every variety bill going. We find him in 1956 recalling his life spent touring the halls; the ups, the downs, the riotous, the fantastic and the downright silly! He recalls his days entertaining the troops during the war, playing at the infamous Glasgow Empire, and we discover what really happened when a speciality act lost her snake on stage!! Ultimately Twice Nightly is a fading…
Marie Lloyd Stole My Life at Ropery Hall
Drag King, Divorcee and Drama Queen, Nelly Power was a force to be reckoned with. Arguably the first true drag king she lived a financially independent and scandalous life that was way more dramatic offstage than on. A major star of the Victorian era she lost everything - except her spirit - after the young Marie Lloyd stole her most famous song. A tale of 19th century betrayal, discrimination, sexual exploitation, domestic violence and press intrusion - all viewed through…
Casting the Runes at Ropery Hall
Nunkie Theatre Company returns with two more of M R James’s very best, in another thrilling one-man show performed by Robert Lloyd Parr In Casting the Runes we meet the unforgettable Abbot of Lufford, Mr. Karswell – magic lanternist, historian of the occult, and scourge of the academic establishment. The story is perhaps best known for being the source for the classic 1950s horror film Night of the Demon. It is partnered here by one of James’s most neglected masterpieces:…
Hauntings at Ropery Hall
Hauntings is a spellbinding evening of three tales of the supernatural from two of the world’s greatest writers of ghost stories, E.F. Benson and M.R. James. From E.F. Benson comes: ‘Naboth’s Vineyard’ - in which just desserts are meted out to an unscrupulous lawyer, & ‘The Hanging of Alfred Wadham’ - in which the forces of the devil test a man of faith to his limits while from the master of the ghost story genre, M.R. James, comes: ‘Oh, Whistle…
