The conceit is a piece of Victorian hokum in which the two Davenports of the title, Ira and Willie, conjure up spirits from within their cabinet under the half-lit scrutiny of a scientific spiritualist society. Introduced by the grandiloquent Mr Fay under the watchful eye of the desperately seeking Lady Noyes-Woodhull, Willie, the younger of the two, is apparently possessed by his dead sister Katie as his spirit guide in a seance. When Willie goes off message, truth becomes stranger than ghost stories.
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The Infamous Brothers Davenport, Royal Lyceum theatre, Edinburgh
The audience are not only on their feet but onstage inspecting the giant cabinet that dominates this collaboration between Candice Edmunds and Jamie Harrison's Vox Motus company, playwright Peter Arnott and the Royal Lyceum.
