As soon as you mentioned the stone lady I went “oh dear lord no!”… do you think they added her after the Who episode? Or is it just a convenient coincidence?

(The angels are the scariest villains for me.)

–Sharry

I know, right? And you know, if you got into the taxidermy and found it did not agree with you, you could just go right back out again. There were lots of places to explore apart from the taxidermist, including, Teresa says, a candy shop where you can eat the candy. I’m sad I missed the candy shop.

Although, the stone angels would’ve scared me, too. And I’m not sure what I’d have done if I stumbled into the taxidermist’s shop. Taxidermy and I do not get along.

The pool table was in a different room–another bar that had dirt on the floors. (And there was a second piano room that wasn’t a bar at all. That’s where I saw Lady Macbeth and “Mrs Danvers” kissing and the paintings of Scottish kings and queens.)

By storefront room, I meant the “street” outside all the storefronts. And now I’m not sure whether it was Lady Macbeth or the bald witch who did the kissing. I think it was Lady Macbeth, but I might have conflated your story and my memory. Fooey on unreliable memory!

It was, it was. My post was originally like six times this length, and then I decided I had to stop and not tell every single thing that happened. It was all just so cool! The attention to detail was unbelievable. I kept looking for the Gatsby uncut books equivalent, and there really was none. (The piano didn’t work, but the piped-in music was pretty key to what was going on, and I expect they just didn’t want the audience messing it up with piano music.)

IT WAS SO AMAZING. I felt very lucky to be able to go to it. I want more theater companies to do comparable things. I think this whole idea has Possibilities.

Elizabeth Goudge is a little late to that party. Berthe Amoss made mandrakes terrifying forever with that book Lost Magic. Brrrr. What does Elizabeth Goudge do?