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Ghost Stories (play)
Ghost Stories is a one-act horror play written by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman.
The play was conceived after Nyman walked past the theatre which had hosted The Woman in Black for over 30 years, and he realised there hadn't been a horror play produced since that time. He contacted his childhood friend Jeremy Dyson with the idea of a new horror play like The Vagina Monologues, with three narrators on stage telling ghost stories. The two were commissioned by Sean Holmes, the newly appointed artistic director of the Lyric Hammersmith theatre in London, to write the play.
The play made its world premiere at the Liverpool Playhouse on 4 February 2010 in a co-production with the Lyric Hammersmith where it transferred on 1 March 2010. Following the run, it transferred to the Duke of York's Theatre in London's West End where it played from 25 June 2010 until 19 June 2011. The original cast featured the play's co-creator Andy Nyman as Professor Phillip Goodman, David Cardy as Tony Matthews, Ryan Gage as Simon Rifkind and Nicholas Burns as Mike Priddle. From 9 November 2010, Reece Shearsmith took over from Nyman as Goodman.
The production was revived at the Arts Theatre on 13 February 2014 and ran until March 2015.
The play was revived again at the Lyric Hammersmith, marking the end of co-director Holmes' tenure as artistic director at the theatre from 29 March until 11 May 2019. To coincide with this revival, on 4 April 2019, the play text was published by Nick Hern Books. The production transferred to the Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End from 4 October to 4 January 2020.
Following the 2019 revival, the play began its first UK tour from January 2020 at The Alexandra, Birmingham. However on 27 March 2020 it was announced the remainder of the tour had been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Another UK tour began in January 2025, opening at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley, touring until September 2025. Following the tour, the production will return to the West End at the Peacock Theatre for a Halloween season from 30 September to 8 November 2025.
In 2015, the show was produced at the Sydney Opera House before going on an Australian National Tour concluding at the State Theatre Centre of Western Australia in October 2016. The play was also performed in Toronto (2011), Russia (2012), Peru (2015), China (2018), Finland (2018) and The Netherlands (2019).
The play is notable for running only 80 minutes (with no interval) and for its publicized warnings advising against anyone under the age of 15 attending. The marketing of the show outside the theatre is unusual in that there are no production photographs, just stills and video monitors showing the shocked reactions of audience members. An announcement at the end of the play asks the audience to "keep the secrets of Ghost Stories" so that new audiences do not have the experience spoiled with any prior information about the play.
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Ghost Stories (play)
Ghost Stories is a one-act horror play written by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman.
The play was conceived after Nyman walked past the theatre which had hosted The Woman in Black for over 30 years, and he realised there hadn't been a horror play produced since that time. He contacted his childhood friend Jeremy Dyson with the idea of a new horror play like The Vagina Monologues, with three narrators on stage telling ghost stories. The two were commissioned by Sean Holmes, the newly appointed artistic director of the Lyric Hammersmith theatre in London, to write the play.
The play made its world premiere at the Liverpool Playhouse on 4 February 2010 in a co-production with the Lyric Hammersmith where it transferred on 1 March 2010. Following the run, it transferred to the Duke of York's Theatre in London's West End where it played from 25 June 2010 until 19 June 2011. The original cast featured the play's co-creator Andy Nyman as Professor Phillip Goodman, David Cardy as Tony Matthews, Ryan Gage as Simon Rifkind and Nicholas Burns as Mike Priddle. From 9 November 2010, Reece Shearsmith took over from Nyman as Goodman.
The production was revived at the Arts Theatre on 13 February 2014 and ran until March 2015.
The play was revived again at the Lyric Hammersmith, marking the end of co-director Holmes' tenure as artistic director at the theatre from 29 March until 11 May 2019. To coincide with this revival, on 4 April 2019, the play text was published by Nick Hern Books. The production transferred to the Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End from 4 October to 4 January 2020.
Following the 2019 revival, the play began its first UK tour from January 2020 at The Alexandra, Birmingham. However on 27 March 2020 it was announced the remainder of the tour had been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Another UK tour began in January 2025, opening at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley, touring until September 2025. Following the tour, the production will return to the West End at the Peacock Theatre for a Halloween season from 30 September to 8 November 2025.
In 2015, the show was produced at the Sydney Opera House before going on an Australian National Tour concluding at the State Theatre Centre of Western Australia in October 2016. The play was also performed in Toronto (2011), Russia (2012), Peru (2015), China (2018), Finland (2018) and The Netherlands (2019).
The play is notable for running only 80 minutes (with no interval) and for its publicized warnings advising against anyone under the age of 15 attending. The marketing of the show outside the theatre is unusual in that there are no production photographs, just stills and video monitors showing the shocked reactions of audience members. An announcement at the end of the play asks the audience to "keep the secrets of Ghost Stories" so that new audiences do not have the experience spoiled with any prior information about the play.