Welcome to The Heights...Welcome to The Undiscovered Country
All imagery by Darren McGinn
Tales from Paradise Heights are a series of separate but connected tales, covering theatre, film and poetry written by Joe O'Byrne. through collaboration with a band of talented and passionate creatives they cover bring to life stories that span stage, film, animation and song. All the Tales are linked through characters and events all set in the heart of a crumbling coastal community, a shattered, shuttered and forgotten sea side town. They've been called ‘A Chronicle of Broken Britain’ and ‘A Canterbury Tales for Today’, but most of all they are described as ‘Stephen King meets Jimmy McGovern’.
It's a place where the streets whisper secrets, where ethereal voices are carried on the bitter, salty wind, and where between the crumbling walls and stripped out shells these people call home you will find comedy, tragedy, heart, soul and humanity. You can jump on board with these separate plays at any point, watch them in any order. There's enough thrills in each to make you want to see the other tales.
At the centre of all of these tales is Frank Morgan — crime kingpin, loan shark and proprietor of The Ace of Spades club; the centre of this dark web of tales loaded with atmosphere, danger and menace. Frank appears in several productions as a living force; in others his reputation and shadow fall across the stage. There is something reptilian and devilish about his dark charm: magnetic, dangerous, and impossible to ignore.
But there's something else…
There's something strange here, uncanny, a darkness nibbling at the edges, this place where the urban meets the supernatural, a community shrouded in ghostly noir. There's an angel flitting through the tales — she used to live here — and there's at least one ghost. There's a cyclops doorman — he'll tell you the tale of the eye that died over a whiskey 'n' dry — he's a Beast who finds his Beauty, and a whole lot of trouble. Look closely for an angel of death and oh yes...a stolen baby in a jar, the twin sister of...well really, there are so many real but ‘magically or tragically touched’ characters that we have to stop there or we’d stray into spoiler territory. It is an ever extending universe where a passing character in one story become the focal point in the next.
Critically acclaimed, the series has a real army of fans now, some seeing the shows several times and bringing new friends to get lost in this world, a world filled with eclectic and colourful characters and unforgettable storylines engrained in a deeply haunted location.
These stories will stay with you long after you encounter them. Take a trip to Paradise Heights and find The Undiscovered Country…
It's a place where the streets whisper secrets, where ethereal voices are carried on the bitter, salty wind, and where between the crumbling walls and stripped out shells these people call home you will find comedy, tragedy, heart, soul and humanity. You can jump on board with these separate plays at any point, watch them in any order. There's enough thrills in each to make you want to see the other tales.
At the centre of all of these tales is Frank Morgan — crime kingpin, loan shark and proprietor of The Ace of Spades club; the centre of this dark web of tales loaded with atmosphere, danger and menace. Frank appears in several productions as a living force; in others his reputation and shadow fall across the stage. There is something reptilian and devilish about his dark charm: magnetic, dangerous, and impossible to ignore.
But there's something else…
There's something strange here, uncanny, a darkness nibbling at the edges, this place where the urban meets the supernatural, a community shrouded in ghostly noir. There's an angel flitting through the tales — she used to live here — and there's at least one ghost. There's a cyclops doorman — he'll tell you the tale of the eye that died over a whiskey 'n' dry — he's a Beast who finds his Beauty, and a whole lot of trouble. Look closely for an angel of death and oh yes...a stolen baby in a jar, the twin sister of...well really, there are so many real but ‘magically or tragically touched’ characters that we have to stop there or we’d stray into spoiler territory. It is an ever extending universe where a passing character in one story become the focal point in the next.
Critically acclaimed, the series has a real army of fans now, some seeing the shows several times and bringing new friends to get lost in this world, a world filled with eclectic and colourful characters and unforgettable storylines engrained in a deeply haunted location.
These stories will stay with you long after you encounter them. Take a trip to Paradise Heights and find The Undiscovered Country…
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https://www.talesfromparadiseheights.com/blog/the-return-of-joe-obyrnes-tales-from-paradise-heights
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