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Barrie's Farewell Miss Julie Logan - One4Review

Dusk is settling its heavy blanket over the streets of old Edinburgh Town, the ancient graveyards are covered with the early evening chill.  We are invited into the past, the present and the distant past of a small highland glen all but closed off to mankind in the winter months.  The folly of youth and the expectations of a young man’s past are explored by the ministers returning to a place that haunts him still, his first parish. Vincent Guy is seen as the Minister in his maturity returning to the glen. It was there he met Miss Julie Logan.  He reads from a diary he kept that long winter and narrates pivotal scenes from the time. He imagines himself entering the room and sitting to write, we then see Alex Dee as the young preacher.   Alex relives some of the moments which are to haunt him in the future. Vincent now portrays other characters from his past. We see the memory of Miss Logan as a shadow behind a screen, but was she a spectre from the distant Jacobite past or was she a flesh and blood woman? Rose Maclennan-Craig’s adaptation of the classic highland ghost story by J. M. Barrie receives its world premiere at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival.   Richard White’s direction added subtlety and intrigue to the piece. The setting and venue is perfect for an intimate ghost story. ****

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