Falling For The Ushers

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FALLING FOR THE USHERS
Friday 6th February at 7.30 (finish 9pm) on
1st. floor of Nottingham Central Library, as part of Light Night, performing FALLING FOR THE USHERS, a contemporary update of
Edgar Allan Poe's Fall Of The House Of Usher. Ticket price is £2.50

Scottish storyteller & playwright Marty Ross (BBC Radio horror; Doctor
Who audio) drags The Fall Of The House Of Usher kicking & screaming
into the modern world, in a show already a hit at the Edinburgh Fringe
& London Horror Festivals - and now putting the darkness into
Nottingham's Light Night!

Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall Of The House Of Usher is long-established
as a classic horror tale, but Marty Ross is a 'modernist' on the live
storytelling scene, keen to rescue this resurgent form from backward
looking quaintness. Thus, in his version, Falling For The Ushers,
haunted twins Roderick and Madeline Usher have left behind the misty
Gothic manor of the original story to become superstars of Glasgow's
contemporary art world, thanks to their macabre conceptual
installations in the manner of Damien Hirst and the Chapman Bros. But
when Madeline's old art school admirer Ed shows up, their tragic
downfall is as inescapable as ever. And Marty Ross's unique performing
style, combining evocative language with expressionistic mime and
gesture, makes full-blown theatre out of the story as he embodies a
whole cast list of larger than life characters.

FALLING FOR THE USHERS has already been a hit at the Edinburgh Fringe
and London Horror Festivals, as testified by the reviews it received:

"Insanely good storytelling... a master craftsman who never turns down
the pressure... Ross' violently impressive performance make this a
heart-pounding triumph... Trainspotting meets gothic horror...." -
Broadway Baby *****

"...What Marty Ross does with literature's most mystical and macabre
works is make them sing with new energy and beguile an audience all
over again.... poetically re-worked 'The Fall of the House of Usher'
manages, in its modernisation, to preserve and revere the original,
even intensifying its impact... a bewitchingly good story that leaves a
haunting reminder long after the lights have gone down." - 3 Weeks
****

"Ross has a great aptitude for suspense and terror, and he hurls
himself into his tale with energy and passion, in words which ring
with Glasgow rhythm. An accomplished piece of work... a chilling
conclusion." - The Scotsman

"Visceral. A compelling narrator and onstage presence. ... left you
thinking as well as reeling... theatre that kept you on edge... an
immensely entertaining ride that scared and shocked in equal measure -
a fair ground ghost ride for the 21st Century...." - Fringe Review