What was hunting ghosts like centuries ago? Actors Steven Kirkpatrick and Charles Boyington offer daily trips to yesteryear.
Do feelings of dread or curious cold spots haunt thine home?
Hast thou or thine kin laid eyes upon foul specters or spirits from the realms beyond? Aye? Then make haste, and send a raven to the Hunters of the Unruly Dead!, local performers Steven Kirkpatrick and Charles Boyington don their scholarly robes and offer spiritual guidance to the festival’s patrons in the showWielding leather-bound tomes, the duo cite examples of ghastly apparitions in history books, plays, and scripture alike.
By “street performer,” Kirkpatrick refers to how the actors stay in character all day, which can lead to some interesting interactions. “If one of our audience members sees us on the street [of the festival] later in the day,” Boyington says, “they will often grab us and pull us aside and start explaining what they’ve experienced in their lives.
Charles Boyington and Steven Kirkpatrick perform a scene depicting the ghost of Cock Alley with an otherworldly volunteer from the audience. in the Baltimore area. And though their characters squabble on stage about the nuances of phantom theology in the Catholic and Protestant traditions, Kirkpatrick and Boyington get along perfectly well outside of the show—in fact they’ve been married for over ten years.
While their characters may have clear opinions on poltergeists, what do the actual performers think? Boyington says that “there are more unseen things than seen things, so anything is possible.
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