One Act Play Festival

Please note that this is not a PADOS production and is only suitable for ages 14+

From the writer Martin Paul Roche, one evening, two actresses, two stories ... and two reasons to be afraid.

On the 1st and 2nd August ‘New To You Theatre’ bring two eerie one act plays to the theatre as part of a limited summer tour:

‘Darkness Visible’Katherine has decided to see a Counsellor to help her with a fear.Her only fear. One which has been with her, haunted her for most of her life. It is a fear many of us have had at one time or another and probably grown out of. But her fear has got worse as she has grown older and she can no longer live with it. She is hoping to be “fixed” by the sessions she has booked with Sarah, her Counsellor, and during her first one, she tells the story, her story; the story of what terrorises her. Can Sarah help her come to terms with her fear? Or is there more to it, more and then she is telling her? Facing your fear is to know it. Knowing your fear is to understand it. But believing it? That could take your fear to a completely different place …

‘Hallowtide’Sophie has awoken in a wood. Hallowtide Wood.She has no memory of when, how she came to be there.In the dark, in the middle of nowhere and surrounded by confusion, she is discovered by Georgia who isn’t lost exactly, but appears to have lost herself.Cut off in the enforced solitude and isolation of their surroundings, it’s more than the woods which appear to be creating shadows.And it is not long before the lines between reality and recollections begin to blur.What can be believed?Who should be believed?What have they accidentally stumbled into?That is, if they ever did stumble.If it ever was an accident.For some things are never really what they seem.Especially on All Hallows Eve.Especially in Hallowtide Wood.