Ghost Stories Scares Up West End Run at the Duke of York

The Lyric Hammersmith’s sell-out run of macabre hit Ghost Stories will haunt the West End this summer, beginning performances at the Duke of York’s Theatre on June 25. The terrifying transfer production, which officially opens July 13 and runs through November 7, is written by The League of Gentlemen’s Jeremy Dyson and Severance’s Andy Nyman and directed by Dyson, Nyman and collaborator Sean Holmes. Casting has not been confirmed.

The production, a smash hit during its March 2010 run at the Lyric, features Nyman as Professor Philip Goodman, a “parapsychology” expert deeply skeptical about the existence of ghosts. As the night unfolds, Goodman presents—and soon becomes lost in—three ghost stories which come to all-too-real life, so to speak, on stage.

Author/director Dyson has won numerous awards as the co-writer of the hilariously bleak The League of Gentlemen, including a Perrier Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Comedy.

Collaborator Nyman is the award-winning co-writer and creator of TV’s Derren Brown: Mind Control and Trick of the Mind. Nyman also won an Olivier Award for Best Entertainment in 2005 for his Something Wicked This Way Comes.

Holmes has been Artist Director of the Lyric Hammersmith since January 2009. Credits include Comedians, Three Sisters and the forthcoming A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky. Other recent direction credits include Pornography (Tricycle Theatre), Loot (Tricycle), Treasure Island (Haymarket Theatre), The Man Who Had All The Luck (The Donmar Warehouse) and The Entertainer by John Osborne (Old Vic).

The creative team for Ghost Stories features design by Jon Bausor, lighting by James Farncombe, sound by Nick Manning and special effects by Scott Penrose.