Ernest and the Pale Moon at the Tobacco Factory Theatre

Ernest and the Pale Moon
Les Enfants Terribles in association with Pins and Needles
Tobacco Factory Theatre
Weds 29 July, 9pm
Thurs 30 July, 7pm
Tickets £6.00-8.00

Ernest and the Pale Moon visits the Tobacco Factory Theatre as part of Edinburgh or Bust week, which previews performances travelling north of the border for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.

The 60 minute ‘noir horror’ is a macabre and gruesome mixture of Edgar Allan Poe’s darkness, with the psychological horror and twists of Alfred Hitchcock and a touch of Tim Burton in the sharply angled minimal set design. Certainly throughout the mainly black and white performance it is possible to pick out which films were strong influences.

Every night by the ticking and tocking of the clock, Ernest sits at the window in the darkness of his room. Waiting, watching,  fantasizing about a women in the opposite apartment.

Firmly based around the concept of Rear Window, two of the apartment’s tenants find their lives suddenly connecting through the obsession, madness and murderous actions of Ernest Hemmel.

Tense, slightly sick moments combined with some beautiful Foley and a fantastic live soundtrack makes this eerie story perfect viewing.

With genuinely dark moments and a wonderfully creepy edge, Ernest is the perfect psychological horror character ticking all the right boxes. Both a gentleman and a ticking time bomb psycho, you just feel sure straight away he has the body of his dead mother sitting and waiting somewhere.

When theatre horror can be this good, why be disappointed at the cinema?

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