The valley contains an ancient, mysterious power. ".Creepy, captivating and even a little funny in places.Tags 6degrees 20 Books of Summer 1001 Books Africa America Art Australia Autobiography Biography Black culture Black history Blogging about blogging Book review Britain Canada Comedy Crime Dystopia Economics England Fantasy Feminism Film France Germany Graphic novel Historical fiction History Horror Humour Independent Publisher India Influx Press Italy Japan Journalism LGBTQ London Mental health Meta Music Mystery New York Paris Philosophy Picture Prompt Book Bingo Poetry Politics Psychology Racism Randomness Religion Russia Science Science Fiction SciFi Scotland Short stories Six Degrees of Separation Sociology Spain Speculative fiction Sweden Thriller Tokyo Translation Travel United Kingdom USA Wales War Women's Prize for Fiction Women in translation Women in translation month Women read womenĪlan Garner’s The Owl Service is set in a Welsh valley not far from Aberystwyth. There are some terrific, almost gothic moments of pure tension. ".Squeezes every shiver of spooky atmosphere from the tale. this stage premiere gives the story a fresh, dynamic lease of life." Roger Malone, The Stage In transferring it from page to stage, adaptors Anita Sullivan and David Prescott have cleverly distilled the essence of Alan Garner's classic sixties novel, targeting a new youthful audience. In the heat of high summer, punctuated with dramatic thunderstorms, secrets of the past are poised to consume the present. Here simmering tension is brought teasingly to the boil as myth begins to eclipse reality.
From the start the company conjures a drama of cliff-hanger proportions as circumstances throw three teenagers together in a remote Welsh valley. "As Welsh as laver bread, this production skillfully sucks us, like a vortex, into the spell of the all-pervading legend the Mabinogion.
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