STARRING TOM CHAMBERS & SUSIE BLAKE
UK & IRELAND TOUR BEGINS 7 SEPTEMBER 2023
The UK & Ireland Tour will open at Churchill Theatre, Bromley, on 7 September 2023, and runs through to March 2024.
Joining the previously announced Tom Chambers as Danny will be Susie Blake as Mrs Bateman, Rebecca Charles as Rebecca, Jonny Green as Jake, Owen Oakeshott as William and Laura White as Sarah.
New Year’s Eve. A car crash on a lonely road brings famous but troubled singer Danny Sierra and his extended family to an isolated holiday cottage in rural England. From the moment they arrive, a sequence of inexplicable events begins to occur… and then the lights go out.
This thrilling new ghost story by acclaimed writer Torben Betts will thrust you into darkness and have you on the edge of your seats until the final chilling twist.
Director Philip Franks said, “Horror films have been my guilty pleasure since I was a morbid child. Now is the time to find out whether many years’ worth of jump scares and terrible nightmares can be put to good use. We’ll also see whether my more adult theory – that horror often puts its finger on what worries us most as a society at any given time – will also hold true.“
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Torben Betts’s previous work with Original Theatre includes Invincible, Caroline’s Kitchen and the online play Apollo 13: The Dark Side of the Moon. Other work includes Get Carter, an adaptation of The Seagull for Regent’s Park Open Air, The Unconquered (Best New Play 2007 Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland), The Company Man, A Listening Heaven (nominated for Best New Play at the 2001 TMA Awards) and Mummies and Daddies (shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award 2000).
Tom Chambers
Tom is known for his roles as Sam Strachan in Holby City and Casualty, Max Tyler in Waterloo Road and Inspector Sullivan in Father Brown. He also won the sixth series of Strictly Come Dancing with his partner Camilla Dallerup. In theatre, he most recently appeared in the West End in Elf the Musical. He originated the role of Jerry Travers in Top Hat, which earned him an Olivier nomination. He also starred in Original Theatre’s lockdown film of Torben Betts’s Apollo 13: The Dark Side of the Moon.
Susie Blake
has recently delighted audiences nationwide with her highly acclaimed portrayal of Miss Marple in The Mirror Crack’d. Best known for playing the Continuity Announcer in Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV and her regular roles as Bev Unwin in ITV’s Coronation Street and Hillary Nicholson in BBC’s Mrs Brown’s Boys. She has recently appeared in series one and two of Kate & Koji (ITV), Not Going Out (BBC One) and The Real Marigold Hotel (BBC One). Her films include Fierce Creatures and Nativity 3: Dude, Where’s My Donkey?!.
Susie is a talented theatre performer, with a resume that includes roles in
Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical
Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em,
My Fair Lady,
Grumpy Old Women Live 2 & 3,
When We Are Married
Pygmalion
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She also appeared as Belinda Blair in Noises Off at the National Theatre.
Rebecca Charles’s
Recent theatre credits include The Dresser (Theatre Royal Bath), An Ideal Husband (Vaudeville Theatre), The Graduate (West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Father (Duke of York’s/Wyndham’s/Tricycle/Theatre Royal Bath), Les Liaisons Dangereuses, (Salisbury Playhouse), The Old Country (English Touring Theatre/Trafalgar Studios), Julius Caesar, (Barbican and Tour) and Great Expectations (Manchester Royal Exchange). Her film credits include The Heart of Me, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Shakespeare in Love and Mrs Brown.
Jonny Green
You can catch Johnny portraying the character of Charles in the show Count Abdulla on ITVX.He was previously playing Jonathan Ellacott in Strike: Troubled Blood on BBC 1, Martin in Russell T Davies’s critically acclaimed series It’s A Sin for Channel 4, and Young David in the Netflix series White Lines, alongside Laura Haddock and Danny Mays.
Owen Oakeshott’s
theatre credits include Witness for the Prosecution (London County Hall); Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Two Gentlemen of Verona (Guildford Shakespeare Company); A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Wars of the Roses (Rose Theatre Kingston); Market Boy, The Royal Hunt of the Sun (National Theatre); Roots (Manchester Royal Exchange); Way Upstream (Derby Playhouse); Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens, The General from America, Henry VI parts 1, 2 and 3, Richard III (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Iceman Cometh (Almeida Theatre); An Inspector Calls (West End). Recent television credits include House of the Dragon, Outlander and You Me & Them.
Laura White
until recently played the regular role of Dr. Princess Buchanan on BBC 1’s Doctors. Other TV credits include Aysha in Silent Witness. Film credits include Gladys in The Colour Room, about the famous potter Clarice Cliff. Her theatre credits include Nats/Ms Almi in Home Girl (Derby Theatre), Sandra in The Play That Goes Wrong (UK Tour), Sarah in the immersive promenade show C-O-N-T-A-C-T (London) and The Play That Goes Wrong (West End).
Murder in the Dark will be directed by Philip Franks (for Original Theatre: The Mirror Crack’d, The Habit of Art, The Haunting of Alice Bowles.
“The Croft” and “A Cold Supper Behind Harrods” are theatre productions designed by Simon Kenny with lighting by Paul Pyant.
Max Pappenheim created the original music and sound design, with Johnny Edwards as sound associate and Bethany West as assistant director. Edwards served as the sound associate and Bethany West as the assistant director.
Alastair Whatley and Tom Hackney will produce the UK & Ireland Tour for Original Theatre with Trafalgar Theatre Productions and JAS Theatricals.
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