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Post by Kim_Bahorel on Sept 24, 2021 23:28:44 GMT
Since it's coming up to my favourite time of year...
Has anyone been to a show (any sort of show) and something weird, odd or strange has happened either in the show or in the audience?
- Have you seen a ghost - ghosting around?
- Have you felt uneasy at a theatre and couldn't really explain it?
- Has anything gone wrong in a show and it was weirdly specific or unusual? Might be coinsidence might not?
- Or even things that have meant to happen in shows that make you uneasy?
I do remember reading in posts about people seeing ghosts and just starting a topic of the scary kind and hear others stories.
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Post by fiyerorocher on Sept 24, 2021 23:51:13 GMT
I don't actually believe in ghosts but I love a good theatre ghost story. Ellie at the Dominion is my favourite. The theatre stands on the site of the London Beer Flood of 1814. Eight people were killed when a vat of beer burst, including a young girl called Eleanor Cooper who worked in a bar and was (I think?) crushed by a wall knocked over by the wave of beer. Allegedly her ghost haunts one of the function rooms off the circle bar. Never did learn where the light switch was in that room, so always walked through it in the dark and said a quick hello to Ellie, just in case she was lonely :')
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Post by Kim_Bahorel on Sept 25, 2021 0:08:31 GMT
I haven't seen any ghosts... yet. I remember the first time I went to Haymarket Theatre and I don't know why but walking in to the stalls seemed to take a while just kept turning corners and there wasn't a door to get to the stalls. I felt really uneasy.
It also didn't help that an usher sat at the back on the row right behind me and my friend and half way I could hear this noise turned around to see her on hands and knees on the floor between the seats and she didn't pick up anything either like she could have dropped something. Then she disappeared I never saw her when the show finished telking people where to go.
I don't know if anyone went to see Hangmen? I have seen way to many TV shows or films where they have play within the story and someone gets hung and it goes wrong. The very first Hangmen show was cancelled due to tech issues. It could have been anything. But when I finally got to see it I have never been so scared to watch someone get faked hung onstage. Every time I saw it the audience gasp. And there was a moment of silence and when they carry on... phew. Nothing as far as I know ever happened but thats a scary thing to watch.
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Post by anita on Sept 25, 2021 9:00:24 GMT
Lots of books available on supposedly haunted theatres.
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Post by TallPaul on Sept 26, 2021 15:19:55 GMT
A couple of years ago, as part of the Fun Palaces weekend, I went on a ghost tour of Sheffield's Lyceum Theatre. As we were told supposedly true stories, sundry members of staff would appear dressed as the ghosts being described to us.
When we went backstage, into the band room I think it was, one of my fellow attendees suddenly froze and went into a trance-like state for a few minutes. "I'm very sensitive," she explained. "I definitely felt something."
The problem is, everything behind the proscenium was built only 30 years ago, so why would old ghosts move into a new home?
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Post by TallPaul on Oct 19, 2021 13:18:20 GMT
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 19, 2021 16:44:19 GMT
Keira Knightley's acting left me queasy  |
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Post by Stephen on Oct 19, 2021 23:24:09 GMT
I have worked in several old theatres most notably the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow and the Royal Court in London. In both jobs I used to walk around the building on my own and often late at night. I never saw anything out of the ordinary at the Royal Court although did get spooked a few times!
At the Citizens in Glasgow there is a corridor which runs (or ran, not sure if it has been removed from the recent FOH refurbishment) along the right side of the stalls to the FOH staff room and backstage. Story goes that the footsteps of children running along the corridor are often heard late at night. Also one night upon leaving and locking up back of house the lights on the upper floors came back on when nobody was in the building...that was really spooky!
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Post by fossil on Oct 20, 2021 13:41:23 GMT
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Post by sph on Oct 20, 2021 21:49:27 GMT
It does make you wonder if people ARE actually offended by it though, or if it's all just a storm in a teacup (no offense to either storms or teacups). I doubt anyone who uses the word spook or spooky nowadays means anything besides it's association with ghosts and Halloween etc. The article even says there have been "no complaints so far". So... well... who are they offending? |
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Post by Kim_Bahorel on Oct 21, 2021 9:02:07 GMT
I didn't know that so I changed it - it now says scary |
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