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Father Brown - The Curse of the Invisible Man
Malvern Theatre
*** A SPINE-chilling whodunit play by John
Goodrum; a murder mystery where the culprit leaves no trace based on the
classic mysteries by GK Chesterton. Rumpus Theatre Company formed in 1994 return with
one of the very first stage appearances of the mild-mannered Catholic
parish priest and brilliant detective Father Brown - The Curse of the
Invisible Man. This production is
based on two classic mysteries by Chesterton,
The Invisible Man
and The Curse of the Golden Cross.
It sees the characters begin to question whether the culprit could truly
be invisible and if it is all really due to Set in 1906 Father Brown is called to the
Edwardian country house of archaeologist Diana Hope and her niece Ella,
where his incisive deductions peel away the many layers of this haunting
case, until he finally unmasks the killer. The music used in the this eerie production is
taken from Bernard Herrmann's score for Psycho. The curse has already
struck multiple victims in Amsterdam and Italy where wealthy owners and
collectors have succumbed to the daggers they once owned. Father Brown is played
by the brilliant John Lyons (pictured) who is hugely familiar to TV
audiences from his years as DS George Toolan – David Jason’s sidekick in
A Touch of Frost.
Lyon’s other TV appearances include
Upstairs Downstairs, The Onedin Line, On the Buses, George and Mildred
and The Sweeney.
The first collection of Father Brown short
stories were published in 1911 and their popularity continued beyond the
last collection which came out in 1935. The character of the priest
detective has been very appealing to actors with many interpretations of
him on film, radio and television over the last hundred years with the
most recent performance by Mark Williams in the BBC television afternoon
drama series. However there has been very few, if any, outings for
Chesterton’s sleuth on stage. Chesterton is often referred to as the prince of
paradox and a man of colossal genius, known as a writer, poet,
philosopher, journalist and art critic. He is also famed for his
epigrams, once writing that "art, like morality, consists of drawing the
line somewhere" But in the meantime, has the line been drawn or
will the murderer strike again? To Wednesday 23-09-15 Johnathan Gray
21-09-15
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some malevolent ancient curse surrounding five mystical daggers.