Fairytales for Grown Ups: The Game of Candles
The Crick Crack Club presents storytellers, Tim Ralphs and Sarah-Liisa Wilkinson, as they pay tribute to a Japanese folk custom. In Edo period Japan, a night time game of one hundred flickering candles and one hundred supernatural tales became a widespread folk phenomenon - Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai. After each teller finished their story, a candle would be extinguished, plunging the room, by small degrees, into a darkness filled with ever more hungry ghosts...