Catherine Tate to star in West End play about Nineteen Seventies Enfield poltergeist
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omedian and actress Catherine Tate is to star in a West End play concerning the Enfield poltergeist, which is alleged to have wreaked havoc in a north London council home within the late Nineteen Seventies.
The solid of The Enfield Haunting additionally contains David Threlfall, greatest identified for his function as Frank Gallagher within the TV present Shameless.
Tate, 53, who has appeared in Doctor Who, Queen Of Oz, and her personal sequence, The Catherine Tate Show, will play single mom Peggy Hodgson, who’s attempting to guard her three youngsters from a disturbing supernatural drive.
Talking concerning the play, Tate stated: “I’m thrilled to be part of The Enfield Haunting and can’t wait to start working with the first-class creative team and the brilliant David Threlfall.”
Threlfall will painting ghost hunter Maurice Grosse, who was a real-life paranormal investigator who helped the Hodgson household.
The 69-year-old actor stated: “I’m delighted to be reuniting with director Angus Jackson and working for the first time with the amazing Catherine Tate on Paul Unwin’s version of the UK’s most famous incident of psychological inhabitation, The Enfield Haunting, in 1977.”
Writer Unwin hung out with a poltergeist professional to study what had occurred to the Hodgson household.
He stated: “Before Guy Lyon Playfair, the poltergeist expert, died in 2018, I spent a long afternoon with him in his basement flat in Earl’s Court.”
“He and Maurice Grosse had spent months with the Hodgson family trying to protect them, but also make sense of what was going on.
“What Guy told me was terrifying. So much of what appears to have happened was impossible to fake and yet at the centre of the whole thing were real people trying to make sense of their lives.
“The Enfield Haunting is a psychological ghost story. It is a ghost story for now.”
The play takes place over one spring night time and relies on the account of one of many ghost hunters who visited 284 Green Street, Enfield, which was stated to be haunted by a poltergeist that moved furnishings and toys round.
Sixteen-year-old Janet was regarded as possessed and was reportedly seen floating 6ft within the air by the native lollipop woman.
The story was beforehand instructed in a TV drama sequence in 2015.
The Enfield Haunting will likely be staged at Brighton Theatre Royal and Richmond Theatre earlier than shifting to The Ambassadors Theatre in London for a restricted West End season from November 30 2023 to March 2 2024.
The play’s first efficiency will happen in Brighton on Tuesday November 14.
Tickets will go on sale to ATG Theatre Card Holders at 10am Thursday July 13 at https://enfieldhauntingplay.com/, with tickets occurring normal sale from 12pm.