Based on the poetry of Maurice Maeterlinck the piece treads in the footsteps of the classic ghost story: it is not a horror story or a tale of terror, yet the events created will build up to a horrifying climax and instill a sense of horror. It relies on atmosphere, a vivid sense of place, on hints and glimpses and suggestions, on what is shadowy, heard and sometimes only half-seen, to chill the audience.       
                                   

        CAST:
         THE GIRL: Jessica Sedler
         THE BOY: Richard Jackson
         THE MAN: Stewart O' Reily
         THE WOMAN: Emma Packer
         THE FRIEND: Natasha MAry Fitz James      

         CREATIVES
         Tristan Bates Theatre
         LIGHTING: Kathatine Williams
         

Maurice Maeterlinck believed that any actor, due to the hindrance of physical mannerisms and expressions, would inadequately portray the symbolic figures of his plays. He concluded that marionettes were an excellent alternative. Being guided by strings, which are operated by a puppeteer, marionettes are an excellent representation of fate's complete control over man. He wrote Interieur, La Morte de Tintagiles, and Alladine and Palomides for marionette theatre.

From this, he gradually developed his notion of the 'static drama'. He felt that it was the artist's responsibility to create something that expressed nothing of human emotions but rather of the external forces that compel people. Materlinck once said: "The stage is a place where works of art are extinguished. Poems die when living people get into them."