{"id":62056,"date":"2025-02-13T14:43:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T14:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?p=62056"},"modified":"2025-02-13T14:43:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T14:43:05","slug":"ghost-stories-comes-to-sheffields-lyceum-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/ghost-stories-comes-to-sheffields-lyceum-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ghost Stories&#8221; comes to Sheffield&#8217;s Lyceum Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Andy Nyman and League of Gentlemen\u2019s Jeremy Dyson&#8217;s acclaimed horror show is stopping off at Sheffield on its first full UK tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The play is known for its unusual advertising, which includes no production photographs and publicized warnings that people under the age of 15 shouldn\u2019t attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time Out magazine have called the play a &#8220;harrowing, 80-minute nightmare thrill&#8221;, and is described by the Sunday Times as \u201cgenuinely scary fun.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The play is 80 minutes, with no interval in an experience that includes low frequency sounds and unusual smells of &#8216;tobacco smoke and bleach&#8217; to immerse audiences into the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An announcement at the end of the performance asks the audience to &#8220;keep the secrets of Ghost Stories&#8221; so that new audiences do not have the experience spoiled with any prior information about the play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/REVIEW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#REVIEW<\/a><br><br>#5* from Adam Craddock for Ghost Stories at Sheffield Lyceum<br><br>\u201cgo get a ticket YESTERDAY! 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We enjoyed it so much that we&#8217;ve just booked tickets for next year to see Andy Nyman\u2019s and<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dysonjeremy\">\u00a0<\/a>Jeremy Dyson\u2019s new play, The Psychic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The play was given a film adaptation in 2017, featuring Martin Freeman, Paul Whitehouse\u00a0 and Dyson himself, which has reached cult status with many UK horror fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The show previously ran at the Lyceum in 2017, becoming popular with audiences and selling all the dates of their residency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Ghost Stories&#8221; is running at the Lyceum from the 11th to the 15th of February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Nyman and League of Gentlemen\u2019s Jeremy Dyson&#8217;s acclaimed horror show is stopping off at Sheffield on its first full UK tour. The play is known for its unusual advertising, which includes no production photographs and publicized warnings that people under the age of 15 shouldn\u2019t attend. 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