Ghost Of Thomas Kempe Cc

The ghost of a seventeenth-century sorcerer emerges as a poltergeist and attempts to make young James his apprentice.

The playful spirit of a seventeenth-century sorcerer complicates the life of a mischievous English boy.

When the Harrisons move to an old country cottage and are beset by small domestic disasters, they assume that James is up to his tricks again. How can James explain that he's plagued by the ghost of a 17th-century sorcerer? This play is adapted from a novel by Penelope Lively. It is designed for ten main parts: five male, four female, with one male voice off-stage; and eight additional parts - one male and others interchangeable.

A 17th century sorcerer materialises and tries to make a modern boy his apprentice. His malicious activities make it imperative to remove him - but how?

No.40 Norham Gardens, Oxford, is the home of Clare Mayfield, her two aged aunts and two lodgers. The house is a huge Victorian monstrosity, with rooms all full of old furniture, old papers, old clothes, memorabilia - it is like a living museum. Clare discovers in a junk room the vividly painted shield which her great-grandfather, an eminent anthropologist, had brought back from New Guinea. She becomes obsessed with its past and determined to find out more about its strange tribal origins. Dreams begin to haunt her - dreams of another country, another culture, another time, and of shadowy people whom she feels are watching her. Who are they, and what do they want?