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Olivia Williams voices Rafaella Marcus’s story of a woman in a house who has only bumps in the night for company
There is nothing quite like a festive haunting to see us into Christmas. Rafaella Marcus’s monologue, which features a woman who is stranded in a house alone and sees creeping shadows all around her, leaves you pleasingly chilled – due as much to the sound as the story.
It is a second, standalone play by Marcus as part of a series called Written on the Waves, and it is labelled a “you play” because it invites us to become active listeners. It is a moot point whether we become actively involved, though it is certainly a monologue of fear whose sobs and starts hold us in its grip as we listen.