Thread: Terror 2011 - 'Love Me To Death' (Soho Theatre)

I am rather excited to be involved in this production - it’s been a long time since I was involved in a show in this capacity (bizarrely, in the same theatre)!

It’s going to be something a little different! It’s a mix of cabaret, short plays and something a little immersive. It comes with a rather impressive pedigree...

Vicky Bx

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TERROR 2011 - 'Love Me To Death'
Britain’s only annual season of Horror Theatre and Grand Guignol.

www.terrorseason.com



When: Previews – Wed 19 – Thu 20 Oct (£10)
Fri 21 Oct - Sat 29 Oct (£15/£12.50 concessions)
Mon 31 Oct – Sat 5 Nov (£20/£17.50 concessions)
All performances start at 7.15pm, no performances on Sundays

Cast & play titles announced for Terror 2011: Love Me to Death at Soho Theatre


The cast for Terror 2011 at Soho Theatre has been announced, along with titles for the 5 short plays to be performed. Amanda Lawrence (Greenland and one woman show Jiggery Pokery) will star in Carl Grose’s Wormy Close. Star of Channel 4’s Shameless Ciaran Kellgren is to perform in Jack Thorne’s The Gong. Eleanor Buchan, who recently appeared in La Fille a la Mode at the National will perform in both Lucy Kirkwood’s Mad About the Boy and Tom Holloway’s If I Should Stay I Would Only be in Your Way, alongside Simon-Anthony Rhoden. Simon will also join comedian and actor Alan Francis, who recently appeared in Cul-de-Sac at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe alongside Stephen Evans (BBC comedies Hyperdrive & Nighty Night) in Dave Florez’s The Waiting Mortuary.



Mike Peel of Rogue Creations SFX has also been confirmed to provide special effects for the season. The company’s previous projects include work on the Harry Potter films, Casino Royale and The Descent.

Now in its eighth year, the Terror season moves to Soho Theatre’s brand new Downstairs cabaret space.

Running for three weeks from 19 October - 5 November, Terror 2011 will play through the Halloween period.

This unique blend of short horror plays and cabaret reinvents Grand Guignol for the 21st century.
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Showcasing new writing from some of the UK’s most acclaimed playwrights including: Lucy Kirkwood (it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now and Channel 4’s Skins); award-winning screenwriter Jack Thorne (Bunny and Channel 4’s Skins); one of Soho Theatre's Hub Writers Tom Holloway (No More Shall We Part – winner Fringe Award Best New Australian Play); Kneehigh Theatre’s Carl Grose (The Dark Philosophers, Gargantua) and Fringe First winner Dave Florez, (Somewhere Beneath It All, A Small Fire Burns Still starring Phil Nichol).



The plays are directed by Hannah Eidinow and Matt Peover. Hannah Eidinow has directed five Fringe First award-winning plays at Edinburgh Fringe (two in 2011 including a new play by Dave Florez). Matt Peover has been Joint Artistic Director of Liquid Theatre since 2002. His credits include Powder Monkey by Amanda Dalton and The Golden Lizard devised with Henry Paker and Mike Wozniak. 
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‘Fast becoming one of the highlights of my theatrical year’ The Stage



Cabaret turns have been written and curated by Desmond O'Connor and Sarah-Louise Young, with O’Connor and Merrill Grant from New York’s cabaret scene as hosts. Each night will feature a special guest giving their own take on a specially composed horror song, with confirmed appearances from Jonny Woo, Dusty Limits, Fancy Chance, Pippa Evans, East End Cabaret and Laura Corcoran (Frisky and Mannish). Check the website for the latest updates on each night’s line-up:

‘Just the right amount of upbeat cabaret irony… an evening of macabre fun’ The Telegraph


Terror 2011 is produced by Seabright Productions and The Sticking Place, and was originally created by Adam Meggido, the Artistic Director of The Sticking Place and co-creator of Showstopper! The Improvised Musical alongside numerous West End projects.

Design is by innovative performance artiste and music hall vaudevillian Vicky Butterfly with lighting designed by Tim Mascall.



Contains scenes of a disturbing nature. Adults only.



History of Terror:
The Grand Guignol, made popular in late-Victorian Paris, became one of the most notorious and frightening theatrical events of its day. Terror began in 2004 at the award-winning Union Theatre in Southwark, followed by a period at the Southwark Playhouse. With an eclectic mix of classic, cult and comic book horror, the seasons have developed into Britain’s only annual season of Horror Theatre and Grand Guignol. The controversial event has consistently sold out, divided the critics, and in 2007 was nominated for a Peter Brook Empty Space Award.



Previous seasons have included the world premiere of Mark Ravenhill’s Ripper, Anthony Neilson’s first play Normal, and 2007 saw the first ever revival of Noel Coward’s The Better Half - a manuscript rediscovered by academics at the University of Glamorgan and originally written for London’s Grand Guignol in 1922.

Other notable productions include Darren Ormandy’s Hamburg (which transferred to the Edinburgh Festival in 2006), and a series of new adaptations of the stories of MR James to commemorate the 70th anniversary of his death. A new version of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Premature Burial so impacted members of the 2005 audience that it was subsequently revived by Mental Fight Club the following year to raise awareness of mental health issues.
Past writers have also included Neil LaBute, Lucy Kirkwood and Daragh Carville. Performers have included Ken Campbell, Bette Bourne and The School Of Night. 




More Praise for the Terror seasons:


‘An entertaining night out which mixes the gruesome and the giggly to good effect.' The Guardian



'Pulling out all the stops for this night packed to the cobwebby rafters.’ Metro

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Sounds amazing!

I'm coming to see this! Not sure when exactly but was talking to Des about it tuther night - can't wait! xx