Ghost Stories - a truly terrifying show! Live at the Duke Of Yorks Theatre.
‘I had to sleep with the lights on. A top night out.’ Metro
Direct from a sell-out season at the Lyric Hammersmith, comes Ghost Stories a truly terrifying theatrical experience. Written and directed by The League of Gentlemen's master of the macabre, Jeremy Dyson, and Andy Nyman, co-creator and director of Derren Brown’s television and stage shows and star of Dead Set and Severance this is one event not to miss this Summer.
‘Brilliantly Scary.’ Daily Express
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.
Ghost Stories mixes the very best of theatre with the buzz of a thrill-ride, delivering something unforgettable. Just keep telling yourself it's only a show.
You have been warned!
Andy Nyman Bio:
Andy Nyman (born 1966) is an English actor and magician.
Nyman first came to note with his performance as a hard nosed director in Musical! and then as Keith Whitehead in the cult film of the Martin Amis novel, Dead Babies. He has played lead roles in Jon Avnet's Emmy award winning film Uprising (NBC) as a Polish freedom fighter and in Coney Island Baby as a gay French gun dealer. In 2006 he played Gordon in the cult hit Severance. Most recently he played producer Patrick in Charlie Brooker's E4 horror satire Dead Set, and suffers the most violent death in the series, being decapitated and disembowelled.
Nyman currently has four films due for release over the next 18 months: London-based romantic comedy Are You Ready for Love?; a bio-pic of 70s Dutch rock group Herman Brood, Wild Romance; and improvised gangster thriller Played where he stars opposite Vinnie Jones, Val Kilmer and Gabriel Byrne. The film was released by Lionsgate Entertainment in 2007. Nyman appeared as one of the leads in the latest Frank Oz movie, Death at a Funeral. He stars opposite Matthew Macfadyen, Ewen Bremner, and Keeley Hawes. The movie was released by MGM in 2007.
Nyman is also a magician and the co-creator and co-writer of the Derren Brown TV show. He and Brown wrote "Russian Roulette", "Séance", and "Messiah", as well as three series of the "Trick of the Mind" series. He also co-wrote and co-directed all three of Brown's stage shows[1], all of which have toured and played the West End. For "Something Wicked This Way Comes" they were awarded the 2006 Olivier Award for Best Entertainment.
Nyman won the award for best actor at the 2006 Cherbourg-Octeville Festival of Irish & British Film for his role as Colin Frampton in Shut Up and Shoot Me. He was nominated for Lew Grade Award at the 2007 BAFTA Awards for his work on "Derren Brown: The Heist". He shared the nomination with fellow collaborators Derren Brown, Simon Mills, and Ben Caron.
In December 2008 he appeared in BBC Four's supernatural drama series Crooked House.
In February 2010 he wrote, directed and starred in the horror play Ghost Stories.
Jeremy Dyson Bio:
Jeremy Dyson (born 14 June 1966) is an English screenwriter and, with Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, makes up The League of Gentlemen.
Dyson was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, and "went to Leeds Grammar School. It was a very unimaginative place...". He studied Philosophy at the University of Leeds and later completed an MA in screenwriting at the Northern School of Film and Television. He lived in Highbury, London, but now lives in Ilkley, West Yorkshire.
His novel What Happens Now was published on 6 April 2006 to great reviews in The Guardian and The Independent. He has written several books including Bright Darkness: Lost Art of the Supernatural Horror Film, a non-fiction guide to horror films, and two collections of short stories entitled Never Trust a Rabbit and The Cranes That Build The Cranes.
He has co-created (with Simon Ashdown) the television series Funland, which aired on BBC Three, and wrote the Billy Goats Gruff episode of the BBC's 2008 series Fairy Tales.
Due to his self-confessed lack of acting skills and a rather camera-shy nature, he does not appear in The League of Gentlemen television series or any of its offshoots, apart from very brief cameos. He works as the assistant producer instead. In the film adaptation he is played by Michael Sheen although Dyson appears in the background of a few scenes.
Dyson has an interest in the supernatural fiction of English writer Robert Aickman and has adapted Aickman's work in a number of media.
Alongside his writing work, Dyson also plays keyboards in a pop band called Rudolf Rocker. They are based in Leeds and signed to Mook Records. Their best known album 'The Exotic Sounds of Rudolf Rocker' features the single 'Samba Suit'. They can be found on the internet at
http://www.myspace.com/rudolfrocker. He had previously been a member of Leeds band Flowers For Agatha in the 1980s.
He is also a patron of the charity No Panic.
With Andy Nyman, he co-wrote and co-directed the supernatural-themed stage production Ghost Stories. The play had its first run at the Lyric Hammersmith, in London, between 24 April and 17 February 2010.
