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Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG

Game of Candles - Ghost Stories From Japan

Closed October 29, 2022

Funny, elegant and often irreverant

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Ravenous flying heads; demon masks that possess the wearer; faceless ghosts; goblin-rats, women made of snow; seductive statues; warrior monks; abandoned farmhouses; haunted bridges; mountaintops and lonely roads...

In Edo period Japan, a night-time game of one hundred flickering candles and one hundred supernatural tales became a widespread folk phenomenon - Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai. After each teller finished their story, a candle would be extinguished, plunging the room, by small degrees, into a darkness filled with ever more hungry ghosts.

Join superlative storytellers Tim Ralphs and Sarah-Liisa Wilkinson as they pay tribute to this unnerving folk custom.

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Performance date: 29 October 2022

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Adults (14+)

Run time

75 minutes with no interval

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You may be required to wear a mask during this performance. Please contact the venue directly for more information.

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