Terror - Love Me to Death: The Waiting Mortuary/Long As He Needs Me/Wormy Close/The Gong/If I Should Stay I Would Only Be in Your Way
From: Wednesday, 19th October 2011
To: Saturday, 5 November 2011
Our Review: 
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Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 24 October 2011
Can our theatre chill and thrill like the Victorian melodrama? Can we update those sensations beyond the horror movie and the post-censorship stage? Can we re-imagine how a theatre of blood was meat and drink to the Greeks and the Jacobeans?
These and other interesting questions are posed by the annual “Terror” seasons curated by Adam Meggido’s Sticking Place company, this year moving from the Southwark Playhouse to the new downstairs cabaret space at the Soho Theatre.
The venue’s great, but Terror:2011 itself a bit of an 80-minute let-down, despite two vivid, extremely well-delivered monologues and some agreeably off-colour cabaret song interludes - including a ballad of Fred West delivered in Val Doonican’s best rocking chair style - by Desmond O'Connor and Sarah-Louise Young, the former performing them with Merrill Grant.
The programme’s two short plays are niftily directed by [Hannah Eidin...
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Adam Meggido (Producer)
The Sticking Place (in association with Seabright Productions) (Company)
Vicky Butterfly (Design)
Lucy Kirkwood Long As He Needs Me) (Author)
Jack Thorne (The Gong) (Author)
Tom Holloway (If I Should Stay I Would Only Be in Your Way) (Author)
Carl Grose (Wormy Close) (Author)
Dave Florz (The Waiting Mortuary) (Author)
Hannah Eidinow (Director)
Matt Peover (Director)
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