London Horror Festival

16 October – 4 November 2012
7.30pm – 11.00pm

Website: http://www.londonhorrorfestival.com/

Venue:
Etcetera Theatre
265 Camden High Street
London NW1 7BU

London Horror Festival is London’s independent festival of horror in the performing arts. Bringing together a thrilling selection of theatre, comedy, music and performance from across the UK, it seeks to showcase the wide range of talent and imagination which the genre can inspire.

Following the success of our debut event in October – November 2011, the UK’s festival of horror in the performing arts will be returning this Halloween for three weeks of macabre entertainment.

The Etcetera Theatre, Camden will play host to this year’s Festival, which welcomes a broad range of horror theatre, comedy, magic and performance art, from psychological spine-chillers to all-out splatter, improvised ghost stories to grotesque stand-up and séance magic to body horror, and almost anything else imaginable. Our purpose is to foster new talent as well as nurturing the already burgeoning live horror scene within the UK.

GORMENGHAST ON STAGE

When:    Wednesday, April 11, 2012     -    Saturday, April 14, 2012

Where:
The Actors’ Church
Bedford St
Covent Garden
London WC2E 9ED
020 7836 5221

Cost:
£12.00 – £15.00

Blackshaws Theatre proudly presents a brand new stage adaptation of Mervyn Peake’s classic novel, endorsed by the Peake Estate and produced in association with Iris Theatre.

Titus Groan: newborn heir to the ageless castle of Gormenghast. Gormenghast’s foundation is tradition; ceremony is its mortar.

Steerpike: kitchen boy, master schemer, social climber. Steerpike’s sights are set on the seat of power: on Titus.

Between them they will shake the castle from top to bottom. Its foundations will shudder. Its mortar will crumble. And at long last, change will come to Gormenghast.

Weds – Sat 7.30pm
Sat Matinee 2.30pm

The Actors’ Church, Covent Garden, WC2E 9ED

Tickets £15 (Conc. £12)

08444 771 000

Website: http://www.blackshawonline.com/gormenghast.html

For the first time in the UK on stage at Progress Theatre, The Mount, Christchurch Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 5HL
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
19th – 28th Jan 2012
Adapted by Robert Kauzlaric
Directed by: Rik Eke

From the award-winning creator of Coraline, Stardust, and most recently a fantastic episode of Doctor Who….

Follow the hapless Richard Mayhew as he finds himself on a quest through the eerie underworld of London Below, with its rich assortment of speaking rates, lost souls and professional killers. Set largely in the damp sewers and tube stations of London this is a vivid and fantastical tale which has never before been performed in the UK.

The story was originally created as a television series, produced by Lenny Henry, first aired in 1996 on BBC2.

Evening performaces start 7:45pm
Matinees 21st and 28th January, performances start 2:30pm

Full price: £10
Concession price: £8

Buy tickets: www.ReadingArts.com or 0118 960 6060

For the first time in the UK on stage at Progress Theatre, The Mount, Christchurch Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 5HL
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
19th – 28th Jan 2012
Adapted by Robert Kauzlaric
Directed by: Rik Eke

From the award-winning creator of Coraline, Stardust, and most recently a fantastic episode of Doctor Who….

Follow the hapless Richard Mayhew as he finds himself on a quest through the eerie underworld of London Below, with its rich assortment of speaking rates, lost souls and professional killers. Set largely in the damp sewers and tube stations of London this is a vivid and fantastical tale which has never before been performed in the UK.

The story was originally created as a television series, produced by Lenny Henry, first aired in 1996 on BBC2.

Evening performaces start 7:45pm
Matinees 21st and 28th January, performances start 2:30pm

Full price: £10
Concession price: £8

Buy tickets: www.ReadingArts.com or 0118 960 6060

Welcome to a stunning night of sophisticated tease, wonderful comedy, magic and music featuring the UK’s finest artistes of the genre. Beautiful choreography, hilarious routines, classic comedy and daring magic combine to deliver the most highly regarded production of its kind in the UK. The award-winning performances will delight and excite and guarantee to refresh parts you never knew you had! For a truly delicious night of tassels, tease and titivating laughter, join us for our fun-filled evening of Burlesque.

http://www.lichfieldgarrick.com/Shows/The-Burlesque-Show/

From the land of legends and warrior Shaolin monks comes the incredible new Chinese State Circus production – the live acrobatic spectacular Yin Yang.

To say the Chinese State Circus is merely a show is grossly to underestimate it; it is the embodiment of a traditional art form which can trace its history back over 2000 years. The presentation lives and breathes with the enthusiasm of its acrobatic artistes. The result is the purest, honest, most abiding and exhilarating circus that is a true privilege to see.

The undisputed masters of physical theatre will have the audience enthralled with a breathtaking fusion of precision acrobatics, martial arts and dazzling circus skills – entertainment for the whole family.

http://www.lichfieldgarrick.com/Shows/Chinese-State-Circus/

Witness the final hour of Dr Jekyll’s life as he bears all to the world about his experiments and the true nature of the evil that he has awakened. Returning to the original novel, this is an intense and atmospheric one-man play, re-telling this Victorian horror story. Penetrating deep into the ghastly inner workings of one of literature’s most famous characters, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll unearths a profoundly human man who gains great power but must face the consequences of releasing the monster within himself. Can the ambitious Doctor fight his gruesome alter ego Edward Hyde?

New light is shed upon this dark tale!

http://www.lichfieldgarrick.com/Shows/The-Strange-Case-of-Dr-Jekyll/

The show that rocked Britain’s Got Talent is back with a new awe-inspiring jaw-dropping sensation.

Set in 1921 Berlin, this was the roaring twenties, a decedent decade and the birth of the Cabaret.

One particular venue was struggling to make ends meet, new blood was needed and it was found when Dr Haze rolled into town with his Vampire Vaudeville show, featuring hair hanging beauties, twisted contortionists, flying aerialists, demon dwarfs, gyrating jugglers, voodoo warriors, pickled people, sword swallowers and its latest and greatest new found star The Ventriloquist.

http://www.lichfieldgarrick.com/Shows/Circus-of-Horrors/

With a brilliant cast The Circus of Horrors features some of the greatest, most bizarre & beautiful circus acts on earth.

It is 1888 and the streets and alleys of Whitechapel are thick with fog, dust and the shrieks of London nightlife. Lurking in the shadows is the figure that will become the stuff of our darkest fears and an enduring mystery.

As the century dawns and a new age begins Jack the Ripper the Musical promises to make you laugh, tap your toes and shrink in horror!

http://www.lacemarkettheatre.co.uk/index.php?option=com_lmt&task=showshow&showid=109&Itemid=74

Thomas Stevens wasn’t superstitious until a paint pot fell on him and put him in a coma. Now, fully aware but locked inside his own body, his only means of communicating with the outside world – the blinking of an eye – has just deserted him. The timing could have been better. He’s just discovered that the doctor treating him has a terrifying past, an unhealthy obsession with his daughter and a most disturbing idea of what’s best for Thomas.

http://www.nottingham-theatre.co.uk/natmain/whats-on?name=Blink&show=91219