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Sherman Theatre, Cardiff
5/5
THE POWER of storytelling, especially when tales are ghostly and narrators Celtic, can keep an audience spellbound.
Thus it proves at the Sherman, where the packed house might have been only a few friends around the turf fire of the grimy pub central to the action.
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