THE EXORCISM
by Don Taylor
18-22 December 07
A date with destiny
When Rachel and Edmund invite Dan and Margaret for Christmas, they are all looking forward to a lavish celebration. After all, what could be nicer than a relaxing day with affluent friends in their newly renovated country cottage, exchanging gifts and enjoying plenty of good food and wine? But the Christmas cheer is about to turn sour. Because the cottage harbours a chilling secret, with which they are destined to be inextricably linked. Written in 1971, at a time of great prosperity in England but when famine was raging in the third world, The Exorcism turns a traditional ghost story into a brutal dissection of our privileged existence.