In a dark and quiet street in Coburg, performer Stefan Taylor boldly takes on four frightening tales spanning over 100 years of literature and storytelling.
In arguably the most famed tale – Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven – Taylor fixates himself on the ebony bird, guaranteeing to the audience that the beady-eyed creature is poised only metres above. The Open Window, The Moonlit Road and The House On The Road are performed with equal conviction.
Taylor is witty, crazy, gentle, terrifying and thus, an amazingly diverse actor. He moves seamlessly from man, to ghost, to child, to beast, and more than once the audience jump in unbridled astonishment at his rapid and convincing character evolution.
Will you see a one-man effort of such calibre again? Nevermore quoth the reviewer, nevermore.
