REVIEW: Wightwater

Reading Time: 2 minutesonglisted for the Royal Exchange Theatre’s Bruntwood Prize in 2022, Frankie Lipman's debut play Wightwater has landed in the vaults of 53Two Theatre in Manchester.

Reading Time: 2 minutesonglisted for the Royal Exchange Theatre’s Bruntwood Prize in 2022, Frankie Lipman's debut play Wightwater has landed in the vaults of 53Two Theatre in Manchester.

Reading Time: 2 minutesTo celebrate the spookiest month of the year there is a fringe festival in London called GrimFest. It runs throughout October and celebrates dark and twisted theatre in the piercing heart of London. Barons Court Theatre has joined forces with Old Red Lion Theatre in Islington and Bread and Roses Theatre in Clapham to produce the largest edition of GrimFest yet.

Reading Time: 2 minutesAs the leaves start to change colour and crunch underfoot, we have finally entered ‘spooky season’–when many of us seek out an extra thrill or two as the long nights draw in. Writer and performer Lucy Spreckley’s new horror play, Skeleton, draws audiences into a complex web of memories, half-truths, and delusions.

Reading Time: 2 minutesGhost Stories at the Peacock Theatre delivers exactly what it promises on the tin: jolts, jumps, and plenty of shrieks designed to send your pulse soaring. And in that sense, it succeeds.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteDARKFIELD presents ARCADE: But this isn’t an ordinary arcade and these are not ordinary arcade machines.

Reading Time: < 1 minute ‘Chilling and superbly written’ There are few plays that dare to be as boldly experimental and haunting as Devil’s Point, a forty-five minute horror by Laura Milton. Utilising an unusual form of storytelling, shadow puppets, amidst…