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| Jake Geen's new promo art for the show, featuring all the upcoming performance dates |
Following its highly acclaimed run in the Greater Manchester Fringe Festival this July, eerie "postmodern ghost story" (to quote Starburst) The Dead, Live is returning with a short North West tour and a stop-off at the London Horror Festival between 19th October and 15th November 2017.
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| The London horror Festival logo (#LHF2017, londonhorrorfestival.co.uk) |
The Dead, Live met with great audience enthusiasm and critical praise during its first run in Manchester. Starburst Magazine's Ed fortune, who will be previewing the show for the new run, describes it thus: "What begins as a gentle spook show twists into something much more interesting... Fantastic". The Fictionmaker gave it four stars and called it "tight, atmospheric, and unsettling". Andrew Riley of Quays News praised it as "a wonderful performance... it was perfect". Steve Ballshaw, main programmer of annual Manchester horror cinema festival Grimmfest, called it "a fine, tense, old-school ghost story".
Many audience members chipped in their enthusiasm too, with Facebook and Twitter comments such as: "Thought provoking", "Had me on the edge of my seat", "I thoroughly recommend going to this", and "A chilling, sardonic tale that would fit right into Ghost Stories at Christmas (or inside Inside No 9)".
Much-acclaimed actors Howard Whittock and Carly Tarett will be returning for the new run, for which writer Daniel Thackeray and director Alex Shepley have taken the opportunity to refine and expand the script and effects - including the addition of new music by PH Fry - to make it an even more chilling experience.
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| The first season of Oldham's Third Thursday Theatre @ Jackson's Pit programme, including The Dead, Live on October 19th |
On Sunday October 22nd, there will be a special matinee performance of The Dead, Live at the London Horror Festival. This annual festival takes over the legendary Old Red Lion Theatre in Islington for several weeks of horrific live entertainment, with different shows every day. On Saturday November 4th, the Old Red Lion will play host to another returning spectral hit, Joe O'Byrne's The Haunting of Blaine Manor, featuring an acting role for The Dead, Live's writer, Daniel Thackeray. The entire programme of this year's festival can be viewed at the LHF website.
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| Stage Fright: A Day of Theatrical Horror, coming to the King's Arms, Salford on Sunday October 29th, and featuring The Dead, Live |
Then, on Monday November 6th, The Dead Live heads to Chester for an evening performance at The Commercial Hotel. Another unique event, this evening has The Dead, Live form part of a double bill with the world premiere performance of a chilling short play, K by Brian E Gorman.
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| Brian E Gorman's K, accompanying The Dead, Live's Chester performance |
And finally, the tour finishes with an appearance at Eccles' wonderful dinner theatre venue, Smiths Restaurant - where you can absorb the play's shocks on a full stomach!
The new trailer for The Dead, Live, specially produced by Ambidextrous Solutions Limited, can be seen below.
Tickets for all of the performances can be booked at the following links:
Sunday 29th October - Stage Fright, The King's Arms, Salford - £7/£6 concs./£20 all day pass (Booked via The King's Arms)
