Ritual david pinner
He has had several plays produced in London, including FANGHORN, starring Glenda Jackson, at the Fortune Theatre, LUCIFER’S FAIR, Arts Theatre, THE POTSDAM QUARTET, with Clive Swift, at the Lyric, Hammersmith, and at the Jermyn Street Theatre in 2013, THE LAST ENGLISHMAN, with Kate O’Mara, at the Orange Tree, Richmond SINS OF THE MOTHER, Grace Theatre LENIN IN LOVE, with James Faulkner, New End Theatre, Hampstead and OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND, Finborough Theatre.
#RITUAL DAVID PINNER MOVIE#
On the back of the inaugural run at The Old Red Lion this Hallowe’en, They intend to tour the show internationally, bringing David Pinner’s work to an even wider modern audience.įurther down the line, EDRED, THE VAMPYRE: THE MOVIE may become a reality!īefore David Pinner became a full-time writer, he was trained at R.A.D.A., and he has acted in many stage and television plays. With your help, they will create a great leap forward in the Gothic world of theatre and cinema. launch party, a night of readings, and the chance to dine or Skype with David.Īnd not to mention boundless gratitude in their programme and on social media, by means of a specially commissioned virtual vampire bite GIF!īy investing in the world premiere of EDRED, THE VAMPYRE at the Old Red Lion, you will be part of contemporary horror history fifty years since RITUAL inspired one of the greatest cult classics in British cinema. Invitations to numerous events, including the V.I.P. Personally signed books and memorabilia from David’s back catalogue, including RITUAL, the novel that inspired THE WICKER MAN The team behind Edred The Vampyre are raising £4,000 to mount David Pinner’s latest contribution to the Gothic world and are committed to supporting the entire creative and technical teams and to creating a landmark piece of theatre for this, they need your help! As Pinner says: ‘Things are rarely what they seem’, and here nothing is.Ĭombining ironic humour with mystery, suspense and insidious menace, EDRED, THE VAMPYRE is by turns startling, haunting, and revelatory.
Yet the surface action belies the true realities of the situation. Breaking all of Bram Stoker’s vampire laws, Edred loves garlic and crucifixes, and resides in a village church where he is one day confronted by two vampire-hunting gap year students, who help him to explore a millennium of world history. The Divine Comedy – Something for the Weekendįrom David Pinner, the prolific and celebrated author of RITUAL, the novel that inspired the great Gothic cult movie, THE WICKER MAN, comes EDRED, THE VAMPYRE, which receives its world premiere at The London Horror Festival.Įdred is a thousand-year-old bisexual Anglo-Saxon vampire, who slept with Shakespeare but never bit him. Sarah on twitter: show on twitter: crowdfund: Sarah talks to us about her current collaboration with Rula Lenska bringing Rula’s mothers fascinating life story to the stage and also Sarah tells us about her upcoming mini tour of Oranges and Ink with Claire Louise Amias. David also tells us about his acting career and how a lunch meeting with Christopher Lee led to his novel Ritual being the basis for Folk Horror masterpiece The Wicker Man.
David and Sarah tell us all about their brand new production, the World premier stage adaptation of David’s novel Edred the Vampyre, which is being performed at The Old Red Lion as part of this Autumns London Horror Festival.
In episode 7 of Words & Sound, my special guests are actor, writer and gothic legend David Pinner and actor, producer Sarah Lawrie. Written by Chris Stagg in Words and Sound ? 2,316Ĭhris Stagg presents Words & Sound, the arts and culture podcast on Phoenix FM.