CAST ANNOUNCED FOR WEST END TRANSFER OF
Professor Goodman will visit the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End to confirm the supernatural is PURELY a trick of the mind… or is it?
Watch a special message from Andy and Jeremy here: https://we.tl/t-oaAEHnHijW
Casting is today announced for Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson’s worldwide cult phenomenon Ghost Stories which is set to play a strictly limited engagement at The Ambassadors Theatre from Thursday 3rd October 2019 until Saturday 4th January 2020. Simon Lipkin, performing as Professor Goodman, Garry Cooper playing Tony Matthews, Preston Nyman, appearing as Simon Rifkind and Richard Sutton, playing Mike Priddle, allreprise their celebrated Lyric Hammersmith Theatre roles in Ghost Stories most terrifying West End transfer.
WARNING
Please be advised that Ghost Stories contains moments of extreme shock and tension. The show is unsuitable for anyone under the age of 15. We strongly advise those of a nervous disposition to think very seriously before attending.
There’s something dark lurking in the theatre. Enter a nightmarish world, full of thrilling twists and turns, where all your deepest fears and most disturbing thoughts are imagined live on stage. A fully sensory and electrifying encounter, Ghost Stories is the ultimate twisted love-letter to horror, a supernatural edge-of-your-seat theatrical experience like no other.
Simon Lipkin plays Professor Goodman. Theatre credits includes: Ghost Stories (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre); All In A Row (Southwark Playhouse); Nativity! The Musical, The Wind In The Willows (The Palladium); Guys And Dolls (Phoenix Theatre); Miss Atomic Bomb (The Other Palace); Oliver! (Grange Park Opera); Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory); I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (The Arts Theatre); The Lorax (The Old Vic, London); As You Like It (Southwark Playhouse); I Can’t Sing, Rock Of Ages (Shaftesbury Theatre); Spamalot (UK Tour); Alice In Wonderland (Nuffield Theatre); Footloose, The Wedding Singer (UK Tour); Austentatious (Landor Theatre); Avenue Q (Noel Coward); Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Gillian Lynne Theatre); Never The Sinner (Kenneth Moore Theatre). Television Includes: The Amazing World Of Gumball, Ricky Zoom, Dr. Who, Casualty, The Bill, No Strings Attached, Harry Hill’s Tea Time. Film Includes: Show Dogs, Nativity Rocks!, Nativity iii, The Muppets Most Wanted, The Harry Hill Movie. Concerts: Honeymoon In Vegas (The Palladium).
Garry Cooper plays Tony Matthews. Theatre credits includes: Ghost Stories (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre); The White Devil, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Henry VI trilogy (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Liverpool Everyman); The Last Days of Troy (Royal Exchange Theatre); Brassed Off (Derby Theatre); King Lear (The Old Vic & Tour); The New Statesman (Trafalgar Theatre & Tour).Television includes: New Tricks, Zen, Criminal Justice, Midsomer Murders, Charles II, In A Land of Plenty, Taggart, The Vice and the upcoming Gangs of London. Film includes: Quadrophenia, Caravaggio, Prick Up Your Ears, An Ungentlemanly Act, P’Tang Yang Kipperbang, 1984, Beautiful Thing, Biblioteque Pascal and Universal Soldier: Regeneration.
Richard Sutton plays Mike Priddle. Theatre credits Includes: Ghost Stories (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre); The Cow Play (Brighton Theatre Festival); Transmissions (Birmingham Rep Theatre); Tall Phoenix (Coventry Belgrade Theatre); Confusions (Canal Café Theatre); Romeo & Juliet (Jamaican Tour); Albert Make Us Laugh(Birmingham Library Theatre); The Libertine (Birmingham Library Theatre); Charley’s Aunt (Stoke Repertory Theatre). Television Includes: The Crown, Line Of Duty, The Terror, Gigglebiz, Sherlock, Humans, Boomers, Silent Witness, Jekyll And Hyde, Dunkirk, Doctors, Mr Selfridge, Our Girl, The Missing, Hollyoaks, The Tunnel, One Night, Titanic, Eastenders, Miranda, Come Fly With Me, Hustle, Beautiful People, Sugar Rush, The Bill, Dalziel & Pascoe, Derailed, Courtroom, Making Waves, Nuzzle & Scratch, Holby City, Chucklevison.
Having exhilarating audiences across the globe with record breaking, sell-out productions and a smash hit film, Ghost Stories returns to the West End this autumn, following a smash-hit extended run at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. More spine-tingling and terrifying than ever, the Olivier Award-nominated show’s strictly limited transfer opens at The Ambassadors Theatre on Thursday 3rd October 2019, where it runs until Saturday 4th January 2020. Ghost Stories first ever UK Tour opens at Birmingham’s Alexandra Theatre on 7th January 2020.
CREATIVE TEAM
Directed by Jeremy Dyson, Andy Nyman and Sean Holmes
Design by Jon Bausor
Lighting by James Farncombe
Sound by Nick Manning
Special Effects by Scott Penrose
Ambassador Theatre Group Productions, Smith and Brant Theatricals and the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre present the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre’s production of Ghost Stories.
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LISTINGS INFORMATION – GHOST STORIES
THE AMBASSADORS THEATRE
West St, London, WC2H 9ND
TICKETS
Box Office: (t) 020 7395 5405 | (W) www.atgtickets.com/venues/ambassadors-theatre/
Ticket prices start from £18.25
SEASON DATES
Thursday 3rd October 2019 – Saturday 4th January 2020
PERFORMANCE TIMES
Monday – Thursday: 7.30pm
Friday: 7.00pm & 9.30pm
Saturday: 7.00pm & 9.30pm
Halloween Performances: 7.30pm – 9.30pm
CHRISTMAS PERFORMANCES
Christmas Eve: 2.30pm only
Christmas Day: No performance
Boxing Day: 7.30pm only
SOCIAL MEDIA
Website: www.ghoststorieslive.co.uk
Facebook: @ghoststories
Twitter: @ghoststoriesUK
Instagram: @ghoststoriesLDN
LISTINGS INFORMATION – GHOST STORIES
Birmingham, New Alexandra Theatre 0844 871 3011
Tue 7th – Sat 11th Jan www.atgtickets.com
Bath,Theatre Royal 01225 448 844
Tue 14th – Sat 18th Jan www.theatreroyal.org.uk
Nottingham, Theatre Royal 08448 11 21 21
Tue 21st – Sat 25th Jan www.trch.co.uk
Woking, New Victoria Theatre 0844 871 7645
Tue 28th Jan – Sat 1st Feb www.atgtickets.com
Aylesbury, Waterside Theatre 0844 871 7627
Tue 4th – Sat 8th Feb www.atgtickets.com
Brighton, Theatre Royal 0844 871 3011
Tue 11th – Sat 15th Feb www.atgtickets.com
The Lowry, Salford 0843 208 6000
Tue 18th – Sat 22nd Feb www.thelowry.com
Cardiff, New Theatre 029 2087 8889
Tue 25th – Sat 29th Feb www.newtheatrecardiff.co.uk
The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury 01227 787787
Tue 3rd – Sat 7th Mar www.marlowetheatre.com
York, Grand Opera House 0844 871 3024
Tue 10th – Sat 14th Mar www.atgtickets.com
Richmond Theatre, Richmond 0844 871 7651
Tue 17th Feb – Sat 21st Mar www.atgtickets.com
Liverpool Playhouse 0151 709 4776
Tue 31st Mar – Sat 4th Apr www.everymanplayhouse.com
Glasgow, Theatre Royal 0844 871 7647
Tue 7th – Sat 11th Apr www.atgtickets.com
King’s Theatre, Edinburgh 0131 529 6000
Tue 14th – Sat 18th Apr www.capitaltheatres.com
Sheffield Lyceum, Sheffield 0114 249 6000 *on sale soon
Tue 21st – Sat 25th Apr www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk
Nuffield Southampton Theatres City 023 8067 1771 *on sale soon
Tue 27th Apr – Sat 2nd May www.nstheatres.co.uk