Following on from such successes as ‘The Red’ and ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’, Original Theatre returns with their next online offering; Shomit Dutta’s ‘Stumped’. This interesting piece tells the story of two great playwrights, Samuel Beckett (played here by Stephen Tompkinson) and Harold Pinter (played by Andrew Lancel). The two were great friends and they shared a love for cricket, something that Pinter described as ‘the greatest thing that God created on Earth’, with t

When you hear the words ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ you would easily be forgiven for envisioning images of mist covered moors, shadows in the darkness and the risk of death by murderous hound, and whilst all of these things appear in this Peepolykus adaptation by John Nicholson and Steven Canny, the classic scary story has well and truly been given the comedy treatment in a way you could never have imagined. It tells the story of the rumoured curse that surrounds the Bask

With such successes as ‘Into the Night’, ‘A Splinter of Ice’ and ‘Being Mr Wickham’ under their belts, Original Theatre have been pushing the boundaries of online theatre, bringing high quality entertainment to audiences at home and setting a standard for how powerful theatre can be even when through a screen. Their most recent offering ‘The Red’ by comedian Marcus Brigstocke, brings together father and son team Bruce and Sam Alexander in a two-person family drama that explor

‘Mr Holmes, they were footprints of a giant hound…’ With rumours of a giant murderous hound loose on the misty moors and the untimely death of Sir Charles Baskerville shrouded in mystery, Sherlock Holmes and his trusted sidekick Dr Watson are challenged to find out the truth and protect the life of Sir Henry Baskerville, the family’s last living heir, before it is too late. In this new UK Tour, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic tale of adventure, mystery, mistaken identity and

Forty years ago, the Cornish village of Mousehole was shook to the core when eight volunteer lifeboat men from the town took to sea in the lifeboat ‘The Solomon Browne’ in attempts to rescue a stricken ship broken down in a late December storm, never to be seen again. The Penlee lifeboat disaster of 1981 is talked about and remembered to this day, with the Christmas lights dimmed in the village every year as a sign of respect to the sixteen who died on that horrible night; th