Ernest and the Pale Moon

Inspired by the likes of Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock, ‘Ernest and the Pale Moon’ is a spinechilling tale of obsession and murder based upon a short story by Oliver Lansley about a man who spends his days watching the beautiful young woman who lives in the apartment block opposite.

Upon seeing her with another man he is thrown into a jealous rage and driven to murder, though all is not what it may at first seem and slowly Ernest’s guilt sends him on a spiralling descent into madness.

The show is co-produced with Pins and Needles Productions.

Originally directed by Emma Earle

Redirected by James Seager

Dates

2009

3rd August - 24th August, Edinburgh

2010

25th - 26th August

2014

7th April - 25th August

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5/5

"Beautifully choreographed storytelling that you sit mouth-agog at the sheer spectacle of it all"

5/5

"This really is a tremendous show from a very confident and inventive young company,. tightly scripted, beautifully staged and inventively realised"

Fringe Review
5/5

"The most visually memorable night’s theatre your reviewer has experienced this year"

York Press
5/5

"Oliver Lansley has created another theatrical masterpiece of dark undertones, creepy characters and where silences speak volumes…"

Hairline
5/5

"Gripping from its first discordant second until its final glint of moonlight realisation"

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"Visually, this is a wonderful piece of storytelling"

4/5

"A gloriously gothic production about obsession, from razor-sharp theatre group Les Enfants Terribles"

4/5

"A deliciously creepy thriller"

"The work of a company very adept at showing how physicalised story-telling is at the heart of some of the best theatre around"

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