I recently discovered that we have our very own M.R. James expert and lookalike here in Cambridge. What could be better than that!? Robert Lloyd Parry is a performer who re-tells some of James' classics, performing them in strange locations around the city and beyond.
It was Tim Wells who first introduced me to the delights of M.R. James, over a mug of the finest coffee in England (well, definitely the finest in East London, and I'm pretty confident about England too), and 'Oh Whistle...' makes an appearence in one of the poems in the show. I was reminded of the fate of Professor Parkins in the tale on a recent trip to Bruisyard Hall in Suffolk for the Jerwood-Aldeburgh seminar. My room had two single beds in it, and bore an uncanny resemblance to the one in the film version of the story. Worse still, on the first morning, I was convinced it looked as if someone had been sleeping in the spare bed the night before... I didn't sleep with the light on. Much!
Robert is currently working on another of my favourites, 'A Warning To The Curious' which will be touring from October 2009 to March 2010, looking forward to that one already. Oh, and uncanny resemblance or what??
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