
The Seance
A Halloween night of whispers, secrets and mounting unease, where a search for answers becomes something far more dangerous.

Greenwich Theatre Studio, Crooms Hill, London, SE10 8ES
London
Greenwich Theatre is a theatre in UK / West End.

A Halloween night of whispers, secrets and mounting unease, where a search for answers becomes something far more dangerous.

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Halloween is the season when London’s theatres let the bats out of the belfry, and any venue with a draughty corridor suddenly has a ghost story to sell. Battersea Arts Centre has gone one better. It has cast itself as the haunted house, and in Immersive Octopus’s latest stab at a scare, the bui…
London City Ballet (LCB) is a company on the rise. Christopher Marney’s rebirth of the company was only three years ago. Now they are filling the house at Sadler’s Wells with the great and the good of the ballet world present for opening night.…
After being taken on a lengthy tour of the UK and Ireland, Only Human comes to the West End as Brown’s first appearance since 2022’s Showman, a post-pandemic show filled with highly personal insights. Its follow-up Unbelievable saw Brown remain backstage as co-creator, writer and co-director (al…
While both the film and the autobiography have entered our cultural heritage as testimonies of the Nazi era – the poverty it brought, its violence, its misery – this new rendition inhabits a different realm. Thom Southerland debuts Szpilman’s own compositions in an invariably morose piece of t…
It’s Les Mis if you squint. A musical based on turbulent French history, doomed love, and flags brandished like a crusaders’ Warhammers. Except this is not the longest running musical in West End history. This is its weird cousin Martin Guerre.…
Though the originating Disney team doesn’t seem to be involved, the vibe of the film is perfectly maintained. Bryan Louiselle takes over the musical aspect, adapting and producing the soundtrack as well as writing new songs. David Simpatico writes the book: his script can be a bit cheesy and strai…
Coming-of-age plays are not new, but they vary hugely in quality and impact. Danny Lee Wynter's new work, Ilford Boy is a witty, sensitive and beautifully performed piece of theatre that will warm your soul and break your heart…
The Orange Tree's Tom Littler is not afraid of variety. After staging a delightful and clever version of Love's Labour's Lost and Much Ado About Nothing, set in the grounds of a Richmond school, he has turned to T.S. Eliot’s 1936 verse drama, Murder In The Cathedral, set in the church opposite …
The idea that “art is not a mirror but a hammer” has been attributed to Bertolt Brecht, deployed by Leon Trotsky and could serve as the epitaph for Sarah Kane’s repertoire, not least her final work.…
Whether intentionally or not, London’s opera houses have leaned hard into the Halloween season with an unspoken theme of “go bleak or go home”. Over in Covent Garden, there’s a revival of Philip Venables’s 4.48 Psychosis (adapted from Sarah Kane’s final play, completed shortly before she…
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A VAMPIRE STORY BY MOIRA BUFFINI “People will believe the most fabulous tale you can tell. It’s the one they secretly long for. It must be unprovable, impossible, fantastical.” Two young women arrive in a nameless British town. Their names are not their own. They have come from...

FOR A BRIEF MOMENT AND NEVER AGAIN SINCE They call him a monster. They call her his wife. Owen and Sarah haven’t seen each other in two years. She needed to think, to decide – things have been hell for her since Owen’s highly publicised crime and subsequent arrest, and simply...

(IN) GOOD SPIRITS No later than 1990, though somewhere outside of time, four unknowing spirits occupy a derelict stately home somewhere in England. Each day is like any other, their residual hauntings take them through the same paths every morning. Alex wakes up on the hallway...

THE GOOD WOMEN It’s the 1960s, the world is changing. Protesters take the streets for equality and against the Vietnam war, hippies celebrate free love and a young band called “The Beatles” is rising to fame. But not in conservative Switzerland, where women did not get the vote...

FOX They call me Mum. Everyone calls me Mum now. Or Mummy. I had a name before. Where did that go? Inspired by true events, Katie Guicciardi’s Fox is a brutally honest and amusing exploration of new motherhood in an increasingly isolating society. A sharply observed drama that...

ROCK ‘N’ ROLL BY TOM STOPPARD With razor sharp wit and humanity, Rock ‘n’ Roll catapults us into the wild months of the Prague uprising of 1968. It races through the years that follow, as future generations fight over what it means to be free, confronting sickness and death...

SCISSORS BY CHRIS BUSH A former rock star inherits a derelict factory in Sheffield and wants to turn it into a thriving music venue. No, wait: her niece has inherited it, and has plans for luxury apartments. Hang on – it’s not derelict: it’s a working scissors factory with a big...

THE RAGGED TROUSERED PHILANTHROPISTS Adapted by Neil Gore from the book by Robert Tressell, directed by Louise Townsend Neil Gore , presents a one-person version of the classic novel by Robert Tressell featuring projection, political conjuring tricks, live music and song . Meet...

TWEEDY’S MUSICAL MAYHEM TWEEDY-the comedy and slapstick legend and star of Gifford’s Circus, Cirque Berserk and the Cheltenham Everyman pantomime returns in a brand new show! Tweedy and his friend Mikey, stars of Gifford Circus, have decide to put on their own show. Tweedy wants...

Following our 2019 Offie Award winning Sleeping Beauty and our 2021 nomination for The Queen Of Hearts, Robin Hood will once again see the return of the much-loved Greenwich Theatre Pantomime production team.The poor citizens of Nottingham have just about had enough of their...
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