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This is normally an exciting time of year for the stage loving Hothouse crew as we'd gear up for the Edinburgh Fringe and dairy in the wonderful shows of the London Horror Festival, but the Covid 19 pandemic has put paid to all that. Fortunately live horror theatre has taken some creative steps to reach... Continue Reading →
As this year's London Horror Festival draws to a close it has one final treat for us horror hounds. The rather marvelous Edred the Vampyre will be running at Islington's The Old Red Lion Theatre through the witching season to bring 2019's festival to a close on 2 November. Written by David Pinner, the man... Continue Reading →
Ok so in space no one can hear you scream, but there should be screams a plenty when Cast Iron Theatre celebrate 40 years of the Ridley Scott classic with One Woman Alien on the StageSpace at the Pleasance as part of the London Horror festival on 24 October. Award-winning actor, improviser and Funny Women... Continue Reading →
It's been described as 'A divinely comic retelling of Dante's Inferno', well that was enough for us to want to get to know more about comedy duo The Electric Head who will be debuting their new show Go to Hell at the London Horror Festival at 7:15pm on the Pleasance Stage Space on Wednesday 23... Continue Reading →
We are big fans of the Hermetic Arts creative team of Carrie Thompson (formerly Marx) and Chris Lince who whose show Anthology is at the London Horror Festival at 7pm tonight (Friday 18 October) at the Pleasance Theatre. Written by Chris and performed by Carrie Anthology is a tribute to the British portmanteau horror films... Continue Reading →
Cheekykita will be bringing their own kind of 'Heavy Metal female comedy with Gothic overtones' to the London Horror Festival with Him Indoors on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 October. This sounds like our kind of show so we tracked down producer Francesca Forristal to find out more about Cheekykita and what Him Indoors is... Continue Reading →
Our London Horror Festival willing victims for today are producer Eleanor Rushton and director Asia Osbourne from the award winning ONEOHONE Theatre Company, who will be bringing their interactive horror show CULT to the Pleasance Theatre at 9:30pm Monday 14 to Wednesday 16 October. 'ONEOHONE Theatre Company was founded in 2009.' Eleanor told us, 'We... Continue Reading →
Our third willing victim as we probe the depraved depths of the London Horror Festival 2019 conspirators is producer Caley Powell who will be bringing Blood On The Clocktower Live to Islington's The Old Red Lion Theatre on Sunday 13 October for one night only. So naturally I wanted to know what is Blood On... Continue Reading →
Carrying on with our probe into the depraved minds of the 2019 London Horror Festival show runners we got to chat with Mae Hearons of Nevermore Theatre who will be bringing Serial Killer Cabaret to the Pleasance Stage Space at 9:45pm on Tuesday 15 October. 'Nevermore Theatre are an all-female theatre company based in Scotland'... Continue Reading →
In our opinion Nicholas Vince (Hellraiser's chattering cenobite) is one of the nicest men in horror so we just had to go and see his one man show I Am Monsters as it opened 2019's London Horror Festival at Islington's Pleasance Theatre. With a run time of around an hour we had just about enough... Continue Reading →
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