On Friday 9th May, Soup Theatre company will dish up Nightmares in Midsummer, an interactive murder mystery at The Place Theatre,
You, as an audience member, will have the opportunity to don a deerstalker and become detective for the night! Could you catch the killer?
A group of talented actors have arrived in Bedford to perform their small scale touring adaptation of Shakespeare’s well-loved comedy, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. However, this production is not what it seems. With daily violent arguments, cast members falling ill with food poisoning, and a director in hospital after a spate of mysterious accidents, surely the show must NOT go on? Despite this and the discovery of a threatening letter sent to the male lead, the company has agreed to play on. Will this production turn out to be their last?
Soup Theatre is a new company formed by two current University of Bedfordshire students studying BA (hons) Theatre & Professional Practice. One half of Soup Theatre is Steve Loczy who has been a Bedfordshire resident his whole life and has taken part in many local productions throughout the area. The other half is Sian McBride, who has been living in Bedford for two years after starting University and moving away from her hometown of Bracknell to pursue a career in theatre. They have taken it upon themselves to start working as a company in order to help secure a future in the competitive theatre arts upon graduation. Their first show Nightmares in Midsummer is an interactive murder mystery. Both Steve and Sian are producing and directing the piece alongside acting within it, but they have three other actors from Milton Keynes: Shirley Jones, Antony Harvey, Michael Hutchinson and then Tom Laker who is from Hertfordshire and currently studying at Tring Park school of Performing Arts.
The Place Theatre, Bradgate Road, Bedford, MK40 3DE
Tickets £10 (£9 concession)
Tickets available through the company website www.souptheatre.com or direct from the Place Theatre website www.theplacebedford.org.uk
