Audiences Loving Scary Live Theatre

This article from Britain's Sky News discusses the tremendous popularity that scary thriller stage plays are enjoying in the English theatre. Plays like "Haunting Julia" and the sell-out play, "Ghost Stories" are making people faint and vomit from the tension. And you thought theatre was for wimps.

Horror moves into the West End

The play "Ghost Stories", which I blogged about a while ago, is.... "A truly terrifying theatrical experience written and directed by The League of Gentlemen's master of the macabre, Jeremy Dyson, and Andy Nyman, co-creator and director of Derren Brown’s television and stage shows and star of Dead Set and Severance."

It moved from Liverpool Playhouse to the Lyric Hammersmith in London and will soon be transferring to The Duke of Yorks Theatre, in the heart of the West End. A true theatrical horror success. Click here for the trailer and website.

Does horror really work on stage?

The Guardian says: "Ghost Stories, which opens at the Liverpool Playhouse on 4 February before moving to the Lyric Hammersmith, claims to be the scariest theatrical experience ever conceived. So scary, in fact, that they are warning people not to go and see it. The publicity advises that the show "contains moments of extreme shock and tension" and that "pregnant women or anyone of a nervous disposition should think seriously before attending".

Click here to read more.