The Judge’s House Marsh’s Library, Dublin

The Performance Corporation’s take on Bram Stoker’s story is not so much an adaptation as it is an invocation.

Stoker’s original tale centres on a young student, who unwisely studies in a premises befouled by the spirit of its former owner, a cruel and sadistic judge.

Wandering among the atmospheric aisles of the country’s oldest public library, we listen to a narration of this ghoulish story, but it is repeatedly inter-cut with another audio track, outlining historical details of Marsh’s Library, which Stoker frequented.