Set in a Wiltshire suburb, Declan is a contemporary ghost story, exploring isolation, fear of the outside world and the distance between two friends. As Jimbo recalls the disappearance of his best friend Declan, he is plagued by ghosts of the past, present and future, and the boundaries between the real and imagined, the dead and the living, become blurred. With the scent of Declan thick in the air, this is a story of total obsession.
Described by The Guardian as a name to remember , Alistair Hall brings his monologue play Declan online for a limited YouTube run. Declan is available to watch online unticketed and free until 9 May 2021.
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Ask the Irish tenors why they’re such a hit and they’ll give
you different answers, each oddly in keeping with their personalities.
“Tenors are known to be the romantics,” offers Anthony Kearns, who,
with his piercing blue eyes, is considered the “romantic lead” of the
three. “All the great composers wrote for the tenor voice, because I think
it’s the voice that pierces the heart most.”
Finbar Wright, the oldest, most poised of the trio, holds
forth, “It’s been medically researched that the frequencies that are
released by the tenor voice evoke an emotion in the human person better than