The Demon King — J. B. Priestley’s Strange Boxing Day Tale
It is Boxing Day in Bruddersford, and the local pantomime is heading for disaster.
The company is struggling; the audience is restless—and the actor who is supposed to play the Demon King has failed to appear.
Then the Demon King walks onto the stage.
He is magnificent.
There is only one problem: who is he?
J. B. Priestley’s The Demon King is a wonderfully peculiar mixture of Christmas comedy, backstage drama and supernatural mystery, in which a shabby provincial theatre becomes the setting for something that may be considerably stranger than make-believe.
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