Tales from the Tombstone Tavern celebrates all that we love from the world of horror, whilst also asking how we want to get our frights in 2020. Taking a new perspective, the company of theatre makers uses traditional horror tropes to challenge the attitudes to gender in the genre and look at well-known stories and characters in a new light.
The Tombstone Tavern is the local haunt of horror legends Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, The Wailing Woman, Wolf Man and The Mummy. Under cover of darkness they get in the drinks and try to give one another chills with their own takes on Lovecraft, B movies, slashers, ghost stories and the occult. But perhaps all is not what it seems…
Producer and co-creator Ameena Hamid said, “I’ve always loved radio plays and the pandemic threw them into focus for me. As theatres were closed, we found a way to make work from living rooms across the world that united us on a virtual stage. With Halloween, one of my favourite holidays seemingly cancelled due to COVID-19, Delmar and I started discussing working together on something to keep the spooky spirit going online and as fans of horror’s history we decided what better to do than visit classic monsters at their local and getting the bogeymen to tell us scary stories.”
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