ON OUR RADAR

An Audience with a Ghost Hunter

An immersive after dark theatre experience in Exeter’s oldest building.

Leigh Curtis

Wandering Tiger presents An Audience with a Ghost Hunter, an immersive after dark theatre experience, from Tuesday 31 October to Saturday 18 November at St Nicholas Priory.

The performance follows fictional ghost hunter Dr Robin Knapman through the chambers and halls of the priory, Exeter’s oldest building.

The audience become active participants in the investigation, in which the building’s mysteries reveal themselves through ghostly whispers, objects moving of their own accord and the appearance of spectral monks.

Ghost hunter Dr Robin Knapman in An Audience with a Ghost Hunter by Wandering Tiger from Tuesday 31 October to Saturday 18 November 2023 at St Nicholas Priory Ghost hunter Dr Robin Knapman

Wandering Tiger is a Devon-based non-profit entertainment company which produces immersive and street theatre, runs community film-making projects and offers workshops, training schemes and work experience placements.

Grade I listed St Nicholas Priory was founded in 1087 by William of Normandy.

Following the dissolution of the monasteries its remaining buildings became a prominent Elizabethan town house.

It was subsequently subdivided into several smaller houses and business premises before being restored and becoming a museum in 1916.

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Performances of An Audience with a Ghost Hunter are at 7pm and 8.30pm from Tuesday 31 October to Saturday 18 November 2023 at St Nicholas Priory.

They are suitable for audiences aged 14 years and over. Tickets cost £16.

For more information and tickets visit the Wandering Tiger website.


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