Falling For The Ushers

About Falling For The Ushers

Arran storyteller Marty Ross begins a spring season of performances with a radically reinvented version of a classic tale by Edgar Allan Poe, an author with strong personal connections across the water in Ayrshire. Poe’s classic “Fall Of The House Of Usher” is reimagined as a very modern, very Scottish story set against the background of Glasgow’s contemporary art scene. But for all the fresh twists Ross has brought to the story, it remains a rich blend of dark humour, stark horror and dramatic tragedy, performed in Ross’s inimitable fully theatrical performance style.

"Ross succeeds beyond all expectations in transplanting Poe’s sensibilities to the present...this, one feels, is exactly how Poe would have written it today. Ross is a master craftsman who never turns down the pressure " - Broadway Baby

"Ross has a great aptitude for suspense and terror, and he hurls himself into his tale with energy and passion, in words which ring with the native Glasgow rhythm. This is an accomplished piece of work which builds towards a chilling conclusion" - The Scotsman