Southwark Playhouse’s annual Terror season returns with four short plays. This year’s theme is Death And Resurrection, which takes Southwark Playhouse back to its wartime roots as a morgue, 70 years on from the Blitz: during the horror of World War II it is believed the cool, subterranean railway arches which now form Southwark Playhouse were used to house the dead.
Terror 2010 includes three world premieres from renowned playwrights April De Angelis, Mark Ravenhill and Neil LaBute, as well as one revival by William Ewart.
De Angelis’s The Country deals with friendship and bereavement in the seclusion of the countryside; Ravenhill’s play The Exclusion Zone concerns a couple who meet online and share a romantic rendezvous which turns into a real life horror film; LaBute’s The Unimaginable is a stark and disturbing exploration of the psyche of a killer. Finally, Ewart’s Reanimator, based on the short stories of horror writer HP Lovecraft, centres on a medical student pursuing ghoulish experiments in the dark underbelly of early 20th century America.
Terror 2010 comes with a warning that it contains scenes of a shocking nature which some people may find distressing. Strictly 16+