Ghost Stories

Synopsis

After breaking all box-office records on its opening at Liverpool Playhouse and the Lyric Hammersmith, Ghost Stories the play burst onto the West End in June 2010 and has been playing to packed houses ever since. So far over 130,000 audience members have screamed, laughed and jumped their way through the show.

The Ghost Stories show is 80 minutes of thrilling, chilling theatre you will not want to miss from the truly talented and dark minds of The League of Gentlemen's master of the macabre, Jeremy Dyson, and Andy Nyman, co-creator and director of Derren Brown's television and stage shows and star of Dead Set and Severance.

In London the Ghost Stories theatre, the Duke of Yorks has been themed to the show with flickering lights, police tape and apparently random numbers chalked on the walls.

Truly not for the feint hearted or those of a nervous disposition, but perfect for anyone who want a thrilling night out you'll never forget, the show carries an advisory age limit of 15+.

So if you are brave enough book Ghost Stories tickets for the ride of your life.

Our Review:

Michael Coveney - 15 July 2010

After the curtain falls on Ghost Stories, a voice comes over the PA to ask the audience to keep the show’s secrets to themselves. Judging by the air of anticipation in the stalls before it all begins, it looks like theatregoers have been doing as they’re told. Unfortunately, that initial sense of nervous excitement, rather than culminating in catharsis, fizzles out into a feeling of mild disappointment.

The framing device created by the professor of parapsychology’s lecture is a neat way of avoiding a clichéd beginning to this tale of the paranormal. Co-writer Andy Nyman’s self-satisfied professor draws us in engagingly, and there are a couple of genuinely interesting points made about the nature of our belief in the supernatural. The characters whose stories he recounts possess just enough depth to keep us with them, and the shows succeeds in providing several good scares.

But while making people jump is not a difficult task, ...

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Latest User Review

Yami Maibe - 12 July 2011:

The Spirit Guardian again- I hate to break it to you negative people but it is just a theatre production and no one forced you to go see it. Yes many of did not find this amusing or frighening because the situations of present life happens to be much more realistic and gruesome. Also the reason why the peformance does not make sense to you is because you are staring stubbornly at the production without actually looking at the subtle hints that its leaving behind- really now it's much more psychological then you think. I am a firm believer in the existance of ghosts so this production has just spurred me on to prove their existance! ...

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