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The Headway Play Project

July 27, 2021 by Marc

A new play highlighting the effects of brain injury produced in conjunction with Headway Essex and Essex University’s Courage Research Project.

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Terror in the Old Library

July 26, 2021 by Marc

Terror in the Old Library

An out of work actor turns up at an old library to record a ghost story. As he begins to recite the tale, he soon realises it has a disturbingly familiar ring to it. Stories have the power to make you laugh, cry, and think. But do they have the power to kill?

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Terrifically Terrifying Tales

May 9, 2019 by Marc

Terrifically Terrifying Tales

Terrifically Terrifying Tales features original ghost stories written and performed by Patrick Marlowe and Neil D’Arcy-Jones.

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All Hail Macbeth

September 14, 2018 by Marc

All Hail Macbeth

Despite a hundred years after ‘some’ women first got the vote in this country, and in the middle of the Times Up Now movement, for three special young women living and working in the city, it still feels like the 1950s. But that’s about to change when Cate walks into their lives and shows them what being a witch should be about.
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A Midsummer Night’s Scream

September 14, 2018 by Marc

A Midsummer Night's Scream

Fancy a Summer scare? Then join the Packing Shed Theatre company for a night of open-air theatre with a horrifying twist. It’s Will Shakespeare meets Wes Craven when two actresses turn up for an Eighties film shoot at an old country house cut off from nowhere. Will they survive the night? Who knows, just tuck yourself up in a blanket, eat that last sausage roll and enjoy the ride.
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Memento Mori

September 14, 2018 by Marc

Memento Mori

“It was our imagination, we imagined it.” “All three of us? At the same time?” When Adrian and Lizzy arrive at their friends’ old house for the weekend, the past comes back to haunt them in more ways than one. Memento Mori is our third production. A witty chiller about relationships, love and loss. A Packing Shed Production, written by Patrick Marlowe and Directed by Sarah Chapleo.
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