Medium
A True Story adapted from a found, anonymous memoir ★★★★★ “A mystic thriller ... chilling, thought-provoking and darkly insightful”
A True Story adapted from a found, anonymous memoir ★★★★★ “A mystic thriller ... chilling, thought-provoking and darkly insightful”
In1875, two of London’s favourite spiritualist Mediums are waiting for a Séance to begin but............not everything is as it appears to be - at least to one of them. Who Is really pulling the strings? And what exactly is it that is haunting them?
Medium is inspired by an anonymous ‘found’ Victorian text containing an authentic confession of fraudulent Spiritualism.
Isaac Freeman used this text as a springboard to explore themes of male dominance, bullying, coercive control and sexual assault, By setting these issues in the patriarchal, colonial past, their continuing presence in society is thrown into sharper focus. The coercive control depicted is not gender specific – the male antagonist bullies another man, a naïve and lonely widower from Brighton. This victim, in turn, dares to raise concerns about his young fiancée being subjected to sexual assault by another Medium within the ‘Society’ who insists it was ‘the spirits who touched her, surely?’
A haunting exploration of power, belief and deceit—where the true ghosts maybe those of guilt and control.
Tom Thumb Theatre, Margate - 29/30 October
Hot Tap Theatre, Hastings - 31 October/1 November
Lantern Theatre, Brighton - 7/8/9 November