Gwendoline: She loved the moon It's glow was like a balm to her broken eyes, not like the harsh, cruel sun. She smiled, blew out the candle and pulled out the curtains of her apartment window to let the light embrace her. This has the effect of simultaneously cranking up the dramatic tension and exposing how we can be manipulated by sound, creating a kind of double consciousness in the audience. The accompanying 2hr workshop for Ernest and the Pale Moon will look at physical storytelling and ensemble theatre. She felt a finger of moonlight reach down and caress her face. In this spine-chilling tale of obsession and bloody murder, it’s heavily influenced by the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock creating a gothic horror story that sends chills up your spine.
He calls it love and devotion we might see it as something. Award-winning Les Enfants Terribles is celebrating its 13 th year at the Fringe with a remarkable production of Ernest and the Pale Moon. The seams of the play are allowed to show as the cast visibly create the always atmospheric and often gruesome sound effects, as well as playing the cello and accordion onstage, like macabre minstrels. Thu 12.15 EDT E rnest sits in his darkened room each night, watching the pale young woman in the apartment across the road.
The action onstage and the story that unfolds do not run parallel flashbacks, a framing plot and multiple perspectives serve to distort and destabilise the audience’s understanding of Ernest’s story as they are forced to patch it together. Lighting and props combine to create the strange moonlit world of the play, a darkly magical world where a moon can be suggested by a torch shining through a lace parasol as easily as by the blue spotlight. This lack of fixity extends to the characters, who reflect and even segue into each other. They are an interesting and imaginative company, and the only way I feel I can describe this play is as storytelling for adults.There is a large emphasis on physical theatre throughout the show, in particular mime.
Floors become walls, windows become hanging windows – nothing is static. Inspired by the likes of Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock, Ernest and the Pale Moon is a spine-chilling tale of obsession and murder based upon a short. Ernest and the Pale Moonis the latest play from the upcoming theatre companyLes Enfants Terribles. Reminiscent of a Francis Bacon painting, the set is so imaginatively deployed that it does as much to further the tale unfolding as do the characters.