The Hallowe'en Sessions
A play by Kim Newman, Stephen Volk, MauraMcHugh, Ann Billson, Paul McAuley and Sean Hogan
(Leicester Square Theatre, London: 29 October-3 November 2012)
(Leicester Square Theatre, London: 29 October-3 November 2012)
A group of mental patients gather for a therapy session to each recount the terrifying events that caused them to lose their minds. But is their mysterious therapist all she appears to be, and will her course of treatment prove to be kill or cure?
Cigarette Burns and an award-winning team of horror/fantasy creators join forces to bring you a nightmarish evening filled with primal screams. Writers Kim Newman (Anno Dracula, Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles), Stephen Volk (The Awakening, Ghostwatch), Anne Billson (Suckers, Stiff Lips), Paul McAuley (Fairyland, the Quiet War trilogy), Maura McHugh (Jennifer Wilde, Roisin Dubh) and director/writer Sean Hogan (The Devil's Business, Little Deaths) take you on a head trip through the darkest recesses of the human psyche, where no one - least of all the audience - escapes with their nerves or sanity intact...
Cigarette Burns and an award-winning team of horror/fantasy creators join forces to bring you a nightmarish evening filled with primal screams. Writers Kim Newman (Anno Dracula, Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles), Stephen Volk (The Awakening, Ghostwatch), Anne Billson (Suckers, Stiff Lips), Paul McAuley (Fairyland, the Quiet War trilogy), Maura McHugh (Jennifer Wilde, Roisin Dubh) and director/writer Sean Hogan (The Devil's Business, Little Deaths) take you on a head trip through the darkest recesses of the human psyche, where no one - least of all the audience - escapes with their nerves or sanity intact...
The writers:
"The Sessions" by Kim Newman
"Three Fingers One Thumb" by Stephen Volk
"Professor Babu" by Paul McAuley
"The Night-Born Sisters" by Maura McHugh
"Case Study: Richard Gill" by Anne Billson
"Marry in May, Rue the Day" by Sean Hogan
The cast:
Dr Myra Lark.............Sarah Douglas
David Rudge.............Billy Clarke
Tom Rose.................Joshua Mayes-Cooper
Vivien Fox.................Gina Abolins
Richard Gill...............Daniel Brocklebank
Anna Cairns..............Holly Lucas
Nurse Wretched.......Grace Ker
Directed by Sean Hogan
Producer Josh Saco
A Cigarette Burns Production
"The Sessions" by Kim Newman
"Three Fingers One Thumb" by Stephen Volk
"Professor Babu" by Paul McAuley
"The Night-Born Sisters" by Maura McHugh
"Case Study: Richard Gill" by Anne Billson
"Marry in May, Rue the Day" by Sean Hogan
The cast:
Dr Myra Lark.............Sarah Douglas
David Rudge.............Billy Clarke
Tom Rose.................Joshua Mayes-Cooper
Vivien Fox.................Gina Abolins
Richard Gill...............Daniel Brocklebank
Anna Cairns..............Holly Lucas
Nurse Wretched.......Grace Ker
Directed by Sean Hogan
Producer Josh Saco
A Cigarette Burns Production
"Suitably scary, sometimes poignant, always horrific" Seat at the Back
"Brilliantly creepy" Screen Geek
"Brilliantly cutting writing and fantastic performances... thoroughly enjoyable" Forbidden Planet
"A triumph of fecund imaginations" The Quietus
"A beautifully performed collection of psychjological terrors... Billy Clarke delivered a show-stopping monologue, and to see him command the floor as a grieving father in Stephen Volk's 'Three Fingers One Thumb' is spine-tingling. Snap up tickets before it's too late" DIY
Read the review on diymag.com
Director Sean Hogan and writer Kim Newman talk about The Hallowe'en Sessions to Virginie Selavy on this podcast
"Brilliantly creepy" Screen Geek
"Brilliantly cutting writing and fantastic performances... thoroughly enjoyable" Forbidden Planet
"A triumph of fecund imaginations" The Quietus
"A beautifully performed collection of psychjological terrors... Billy Clarke delivered a show-stopping monologue, and to see him command the floor as a grieving father in Stephen Volk's 'Three Fingers One Thumb' is spine-tingling. Snap up tickets before it's too late" DIY
Read the review on diymag.com
Director Sean Hogan and writer Kim Newman talk about The Hallowe'en Sessions to Virginie Selavy on this podcast
