Ghost Stories (NHB Modern Plays) - Softcover

Jeremy Dyson; Andy Nyman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184842826X ISBN 13: 9781848428263

Publisher: Nick Hern Books, 2019

Synopsis

The terrifying, original world-wide smash.

Professor of Parapsychology, Philip Goodman, is an arch-sceptic with a mission to debunk the paranormal, wherever it occurs.

But when he embarks on an investigation of three apparent hauntings - as recounted by a night-watchman, a teenage boy, and a businessman awaiting his first child - Goodman finds himself at the outer limits of rationality, and fast running out of explanations.

Ghost Stories first started terrifying audiences at Liverpool Playhouse and the Lyric Hammersmith, London, in 2010, directed by its authors along with Sean Holmes - and has since become a worldwide cult phenomenon, with two West End transfers, productions in China, Australia, Canada and Europe, and an award-winning film adaptation. It was revived at the Lyric in 2019.

This official tie-in edition features the complete script for the show, and an exclusive introduction by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, about the origins and development of the play.

Jeremy Dyson is an author, musician, screenwriter and one of The League of Gentlemen. Andy Nyman is an actor, writer, director and long-term collaborator of Derren Brown. Jeremy and Andy have been friends - and fellow horror fans - for almost forty years.

About this title

Review:

Brilliant and deeply unsettling. --Telegraph

A harrowing, nightmarish thrill. --The Stage

Immensely skillful... Sets out to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, and the pit of your stomach lurch uncomfortably. It succeeds triumphantly. --WhatsOnStage

Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson are twisted in the best possible way... creating exactly what you'd imagine to be in the deepest and most depraved recesses of the mind. --A Younger Theatre

Delivers a steady, heady mix of spooks, chills and macabre comedy. --The Reviews Hub

Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman's horror play does a fine job of intriguing, amusing, unsettling and, yes, scaring the willies out of you. Dyson and Nyman know how to make hokum plausible and vivid. It's short, sharp and shockingly good fun --The Times

About the Author:

Jeremy Dyson is an English author, musician and screenwriter who, along with Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, is one of the creators of the League of Gentlemen. He also created and co-wrote the popular West End show Ghost Stories and its film adaptation.

Andy Nyman is an actor, writer and magician. On stage, he co-wrote, co-directed and starred in the West End hit Ghost Stories, and won an Olivier Award for Best Entertainment for co-writing and directing Something Wicked This Way Comes with his regular collaborator Derren Brown. His many film appearances include Severance and Frank Oz's Death at a Funeral.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 184842826X
• ISBN 13: 9781848428263
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80