Robin Redbreast



I saw this play years ago. It is something of a cult classic. Sitting on a winter's evening in a lonely Suffolk cottage, especially back when it was made, it would be enjoyably scary - a tale of rural pagans pursuing age-old rituals at the cost of feeble incomers. 

When I watched it I was in Australia and I was sitting outside on a sunny late afternoon. In those circumstances the play was largely stripped of its ability to induce fear. All the same the scene when the stones come down the chimney is, even in broad daylight, pretty alarming. On the other hand, the final scene when the main character looks back from her car is pure village pantomime. The author explained some time after it was shown that he based it on a true story. That is hair-raising, if true,

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