Some people swear the Music Room in Renfield House is haunted. In 1852, Philomel, wife of Sir Richard Camberston had her throat slit while playing the piano. After that the stories started. The sound of sobbing, the piano playing on its own at night, vases flying through the air! And most mysterious of all Philomel's portrait - her face full of fear - dripping real blood! 'Stuff and nonsense' thinks the current owner, Kit Camberston, who has enough pressing financial problems without worrying about the past. But then ironically a crew arrives to film the house for a TV series about ghosts. They seem a cheerful bunch. Attractive men and women, working colleagues. The banter is easy and the talk charming. But amongst the crew professional and sexual tensions are secretly seething. Soon some will die! And murders will be solved - one of them two hundred years old! The Face of Fear uses a classic haunted-house story as background to tell a more immediate and more frightening modern story in the foreground - of murder! and evil! and mayhem!| 24 Feb 04 to 3 Apr 04 | The Mill Sonning, Berkshire Performance Details => Venue archive |
