Calling all fans of the darker side of theatre! The brilliant Vault Festival is set to return at the end of the month, and this time, it’s bigger than ever!
Running from January 24th to March 18th, over three hundred new shows explode across a festival of festivals in their Waterloo home. These range from plays and comedy shows, to film screenings… and the great news for us horror fans is that there’s some darkly brilliant performances on the bill too.
Of course, to help you choose what to see, we’ve picked out our highlights for you. All these individual performances are also added to our event calendar, so there’s no excuses for forgetting!
Alien Land
Running from 24th — 28th January
A darkly comic solo show about love, loss and exile inspired by The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist, the first science fiction novel in the Middle East.
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Tomorrow Creeps
Running from 24th — 28th January
Fallen Tyrant, Spectral Queen, Hollow Hero. Where is Wild Kate?
Experience a new play drawn from sixteen Shakespeare texts. Scream Babooshka: we are such stuff as nightmares are made on.
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Misc. Films Presents: DEATH LINE
Running on 28th January
Mind The Doors!
There’s something grisly going down on the London Underground, but don’t worry – tea-drinking Inspector Calhoun (Donald Pleasence) is on the case in Gary Sherman’s cult-classic cannibal horror.
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Providence
Running from 31st Jan — 4th Feb
Dominic Allen (Belt-Up, A Common Man) and Simon Maeder (Superbolt Theatre) present a darkly comic journey through the life and works of America’s most infamous horror writer, HP Lovecraft.
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Enthusiasms #666: I am The Devil + Society
Running on 4th Feb
A horrific one-two punch of exposure and exploitation: honey-traps, hallucinogens, CIA conspiracy-theories, slithering body-horror and Republican cannibalistic-orgies are the order of the day in the dark pulsating heart of Trump’s America.
God help us all.
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The Thing That Came To Dinner
Running from 7th — 9th February
When the guests of an elegant dinner-party discover that their snowbound manor-house has been infiltrated by a deadly shape-shifting alien, the evening descends into paranoia, panic, and razor-sharp witticisms.
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Mr Nod
Running from 14th — 15th February
Mr Nod is a heightened, macabre and darkly comic journey through the distorted world of a man in the depths of insomnia, hanging onto reality by his fingernails.
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Frances Farmer: Zombie Movie Star
Running from 17th — 18th February
Glamour? Glitz? Graveyard dust? Frances Farmer has it all. Join this decaying diva as she recounts her life on screen and stage, or, well, as much as her rotting brain will let her…
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Red/Wolf
Running from 28th Feb — 4th Mar
‘Why should I fear Wolves?’ Mused Little Red ‘They’re no match for what’s in my head’.
A sick Granny. Many different paths. And a cabaret deep in the forest.
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Father Of Lies
Running from 28th Feb — 4th Mar
Making a Murderer meets Rosemary’s Baby… true crime thriller about an unsolved murder in 1973.
‘Devastating’ ★★★★★ (London Pub Theatres). ‘Captivating’ ★★★★ (The Wee Review). ‘Fascinating’ ★★★★ (Edinburgh Festivals Magazine).
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Unburied
Running from 7th — 11th March
In 1978, HTV produced a children’s Folk Horror serial called ‘Unburied’.
The tapes are now missing, presumed destroyed. Join Carrie Marx as she unearths a terrifying mystery, buried in our cultural past.
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Bury The Hatchet
Running from 7th — 11th March
Andrew Borden and his wife Abby are found dead in Fall River, Massachusetts on August 4th 1892.
The story goes their daughter Lizzie wielded the axe that killed them.
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The Unseen Hour
Runs on 8th March
Two stand alone stories of absurd comic horror, performed by a cast of three, in 10 roles.
Featuring James Carney, Brice Stratford & Joey Timmins.
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The Twins Macabre: Slay
Running from 9th — 10th March
The world’s most prolific killer siblings have been found guilty of hundreds of murders and have skyrocketted to an insane level of celebrity!
Watch them slay the world of social media and pop culture.
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Lock And Key
Running from 14th — 18th March
A spine-tingling new musical from Barlow & Smith (‘exceptionally clever’ – Musical Theatre Review).
Professional success doesn’t come for free. How far are you willing to go? Directed by Adam Lenson.
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Tom And Bunny Save The World
Running from 14th — 18th March
As 2018 falls to a zombie apocalypse, Tom and Bunny begin their perilous journey to Yorkshire.
A black and bloody comedy set to a live folk soundtrack.
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Big Bad
Running from 14th — 18th March
They wanted to tame her, keep her, control her.
For years her animal instincts have kept her safe, but this time she is trapped, she made a mistake.
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For all the details on the 2018 Vault Festival, head over to the festival website.