Kirsty Mann: Corpse review – a comedy so creepy you’ll fear the next revelation

Summerhall, Edinburgh The comedian brings a calm authority to her tale of a haunted house and digs out maximum horror from a minimal staging Some shows work their magic on you slowly but Kirsty Mann will have you hooked in under a minute. A thunderous sound effect, a flash of blood-red lighting and a DIY ghost costume is all it takes to get the audience strapped in for her comic tale of a haunting. “Are you a believer?” she asks us. Mann may not convince you of supernatural powers but she overwhelmingly proves the power of storytelling. It succeeds partly because our host is such a natural on

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