Current Shows & Events

The Graveyard Slot

Future dates TBC

A radio play to be performed live! Kick-start the new year with a feast of funny and fright as a handful of actors, two microphones, a keyboard and a variety of sound-making props, perform a live radio comedy paying homage to wireless dramas of the 1940s/50s. When Janet De Bastion returns to her family home for a grand birthday party, she is shocked to discover that her eccentric late Uncle Ignatius, who claimed to have discovered the secret of alchemy just before his untimely death, has left her a treasure map in his will. However, it transpires that Janet isn’t the only one hunting for Uncle Iggy’s gold, entangling her in a cast of crackpot characters, crime, mystery and voices from beyond the grave…

Cast:
Miranda Bate, Hannah-Marie Chidwick, Katalin Gulyas, Nicola Phibben, Gemma Reynolds and Amy Tobias

Featuring a twisting-turning plot, original music and a smorgasbord of silly voices, this onstage-radio extravaganza promises to be a fantastic night out for the eyes and ears. Read our review from Remote Goat – “It appeals as it beguiles!”

Metamorphoses: Fables from Ovid

13th-25th Aug (not 19th), 4.25pm @ Theatre 1, The Surgeons Hall, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2012

“Fantastic… the writing and the performances were exceptionally fine and beautifully
Ovidian in the blending of pathos/bathos, horror/comedy, originality/allusion.”

Dr. Genevieve Liveley, University of Bristol, author of “Ovid: Love Songs”

Not for the faint-hearted… Inspired by Roman writer Ovid’s epic, Hecate Theatre’s “Metamorphoses” tells the tale of four students in a Victorian girls’ boarding school, the night before their debutant ball – before they transform (in the eyes of society) into women. In the excitement of their anticipation, they recount to each other tales of transformation, re-enacting Ovid’s stories with a 19th century twist.

“Metamorphoses” features horror, comedy and the anxieties of youth, expressed through heart-wrenching performances, a cappella choral work, and the kind of inspired staging seen in “A Halloween Cabaret.” Dark, twisted and hilarious.

Cast:
Amy – Glenys McIntyre
Jane – Nicola Foxfield
Lucy – Hannah-Marie Chidwick
Mary – Natalie Jones
Matron – Gemma Reynolds

Director – Ellie Grice
Writers – Helena Hoyle & Silvie Kilgallon

Listen to the “Invocation”
Read our reviews!

Bristol Evening Post: “Don’t be fooled by the fresh faces and lily-white dresses, this play’s themes make the Saw films look like Dora the Explorer.”
Remote Goat: “Simplistically clever and slick storytelling”
Oxford University’s Cherwell Magazine.

“We read the six stories before coming and that proved a good idea. It showed how well you adapted the stories to your setting while keeping to the text. The jumps… from comedy to horror were especially well done, and seeing the gruesome episodes through the antics of schoolgirls made them very shivery. If this show had been on the Edinburgh fringe… it would have been one of the most memorable of any year.”

Jerry Cowhig, audience member 25/3/11