Carrie Clairvoyant is an acclaimed psychic medium, who has never succeeded in raising a genuine spirit. This changes when Dean appears onstage during one of her public shows, claiming to have been reincarnated. When Carrie flees the stage to escape him, Dean takes up residence in her house, leaving Carrie with no option but to call on her estranged exorcist sister, Mary. With all eyes on the crisis at hand, Mary and Carrie are initially oblivious to the attraction Dean holds for Mary's conflicted daughter, Jess. Will Jess leave her beliefs behind for a man who may well be the devil incarnate? Is there any point in Dean carrying on living when he's not truly alive? And will Mary and Carrie ever face up to the events that drove them apart twenty years earlier?

Giving up the Ghost was first performed as a work in progress at The Old Hairdressers in Glasgow on September 20th and 21st 2014. This was followed by a week's run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2015.

The cast for both productions was as follows:

Claudette Baker-Park (Carrie)

Mary-Jo Hastie (Mary)

Jay Newton (Dean)

Alice Restrick (Jess)



Photographs courtesy of Photography by Duncan Holmes