Fraud? Murder? Meeting with Huxley and Crowley? Here too. Events in Wheatley’s life read like a thriller. Whatever the case for the novels, the biography is a cracking piece of work. Maybe their fate has been even more undignified: used to prop open windows, scrunched up to light fires, left to moulder in a rubbish tip somewhere. You wonder where all those books have gone, because they sold in their millions, and they’re seldom seen now, even in second hand bookshops. I never quite worked out what the flame was for: perhaps it was to keep the poor dear warm, her being a state of semi-undress and all. They bring to mind dog eared Pan paperbacks, usually with a semi naked woman, a goat’s skull and a flame on the front cover, possibly with a pentacle thrown in for good measure. We will review these conditions of entry if COVID-19 guidelines are updated prior to the event.Re-reading Proust has been abandoned temporarily, first to read Alan Garner’s latest (and possibly last),Boneland, and currently Phil Baker’s biography of Dennis Wheatley, The Devil is a Gentleman.ĭoes anyone read Dennis Wheatley’s novels any more? They were notoriously stilted affairs when first released, and they certainly haven’t have aged well. Email us at and we’ll happily refund your tickets. Please do not come to the event if you’re displaying any of the symptoms of Covid 19.♱m physical distancing in line with government guideline. (Please email us if there’s someone you’d like to sit with. Visitors to the venues will be allocated seats as per their booking.Please wear a mask while queuing for indoor events and if you have to leave your seat to move around the venue.Temperature check on arrival at the venue.We are making every effort to provide a safe environment for our audiences, artists, volunteers and staff. Our charmingly mysterious host ably assisted by some of Northern Irelands finest operatic and music theatre performers will take you on a ride through opera and music theatre’s most villainous and tempting stories but make sure you don’t follow him any further once the music stops!’įeaturing selections from Faust, Jesus Christ Superstar, Dido and Aeneas, The Rakes Progress, Alcina, The Turn of the Screw and much more.ĬQAF is committed to facilitating the return of live entertainment and the gradual reopening of events. Northern Ireland Opera invites you to join us for an hour of devilish arias, duets, and songs in The Devil Made Me Do It.

“ The Devil is a gentleman” William Shakespeare

The Devil Is a Gentleman by Phil Baker