Plug!: Lodestar Theatre Company's The House That Dripped Horror

Plug! Lodestar, whose Hamlet experiment I enjoyed so much last year have a new show coming up and I've offered to published the press release by way of an advertisement. Here it is:

The House That Dripped Horror is a newly devised show from Lodestar that celebrates the glory of the B-movie.

Three fantastical tales of alien abduction, vampiric possession and a massive lizard!!!

SHUDDER as Dracula rises from his tomb

SHRIEK as your loved ones are transformed into hideous aliens and

FEEL YOUR EYES BURST as Godzilla battles the entire US army!!!

(and count the Exclamation marks in this press release !!!!)

Join us down in the crypt at Liverpool Contemporary Urban Centre from March 30th – April 3rd for an unforgettable evening of creepy comedy courtesy of Lodestar: award-winning producers of The Liverpool Shakespeare festival.

Tickets are available from NOVAS CUC 0151 7083529 or on the door. Prices: £9 standard, £7 concessions including CUC booking fee. Show time 7.30pm

We love old films and have written three scripts of our own:

Behold the claws of Dracula!

They came from Venus! In 3D!

And…

Godzilla – Emperor of Monsters!

At the moment the cast of 7 is in the process of squeezing each one down to a twenty-minute stage version. With a tiny budget and sequences like ‘Godzilla battles the entire US air-force’ and ‘The Aliens destroy New York’ to represent, we’ve had to find creative and imaginative solutions. David Ben Shannon, our genius composer is writing the scores as we work. It is fast paced, highly inventive physical theatre that celebrates the tacky glory of the B-movie - and we’re doing it in a crypt!

This is something of a new direction for Lodestar, in that it’s not Shakespeare – and this is certainly not Shakespeare – but we are a company of eclectic tastes and we think our audience will have as much fun watching this as we have had making it. We’ll be back to the Shakespeare in the summer – the public have been voting on our website in our ‘What would you like to see next?’ poll and the front-runner is Romeo and Juliet, which currently has 50% of the votes. More to come before then though – in late May / early June, Benn Stott (Macbeth 08) will be starring in the wig-tastic musical, ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ at The Kazimier and we continue to run regular classes at the Contemporary Urban Centre in Acting, Improvisation and Shakespeare in Performance.

All the details are on our website http://lodestartheatre.co.uk