27 Jan 2018

The Dead, Live at the first London Lovecraft Festival!


Between Tuesday 6th and Sunday 11th February 2018, the renowned Etcetera Theatre in Camden Town plays host to the first-ever London Lovecraft Festival, and Scytheplays Ltd  is thrilled to announce that the company will be part of the chilling entertainment on offer, with a special performance of The Dead, Live.

Artwork by Jake Geen
The play's writer, Daniel Thackeray, says: “In recent years a growing number of writers and producers of theatre have been emboldened to enter the realm of the supernatural, and often their inspiration is the work of HP Lovecraft - the man who, in many ways, redefined the territory of literary supernatural horror, and who is owed a great debt by every writer who has worked in that field since. Even though our play has no direct connection to Lovecraft’s works, when I was writing it, his universe of ‘cosmic horror’ was very much in my mind as something that might lurk beneath the surface of the world of the stage ‘psychic’. It’s high time there was a fully-fledged Lovecraft Festival and I'm beyond thrilled that we're part of it and sharing the bill with some of his greatest titles. The festival organisers are clearly doing it out of a great love for the material, and they’ve put together a really special programme."



Carly Tarett and Howard Whittock will be reprising their acclaimed performances from last year's tours as Rachael and Lawrence respectively.  The performance of The Dead, Live will be a matinee at 3.30pm on the last day of the festival, Sunday February 11th, and tickets can be booked via the Etcetera Theatre website.

Other titles in the festival's packed line-up include adaptations of Lovecraft's terrifying The Shadow Over Innsmouth and At the Mountains of Madness, Eldritch-inspired comedy in The Society of the Strange, and much that falls in between.  For more information please explore the festival website.