Award winning comedian Elf Lyons is releasing her critically acclaimed debut play “Gorgon: A Horror Story” as a digital audio play.
Gorgon: A Horror Story - which entirely sold out its first weeklong run at VAULT Festival in February 2020 - was originally conceived as a live immersive horror, designed to prey on the senses, using live sound with expert foley and horror tricks inspired by the gruesome Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol’s famed Parisian naturalistic horror shows of the early 20th Century.
Focusing on the still taboo subject of female anger, the show explores what happens when we are just pushed too far. A mild-mannered taxidermist encounters one too many mean-spirited people, loses her temper and decides to experiment with the human form..
Gorgon... has been deliberately constructed to combine the everyday with the gruesome and the humdrum with the horrifying. In this the new audio version, the team have stepped up the foley to truly set the grisly scene – resulting in a horror show delighted to delight and scare in equal measure.
Writer/director/performer Lyons is an award-winning comedian and theatre maker known for making distinctive theatrical adventures on stage. She has been featured in VOGUE as one of the 'Top Names of Now' and can often be heard on BBC Radio. She has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show, the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality, Fringe World's Best Comedy Show and in 2018 was awarded Pick of the Fringe at the Adelaide Fringe, Australia. She is a graduate of L'Ecole Philippe Gaulier and is horror nut
Performer David Hoskin is a performer, writer and immersive theatre practitioner. He frequently collaborates with renowned immersive theatre companies Funicular Productions and BuckBuck Games. David is a graduate of the Royal College of Art.
Performer Natalie Williams was described as “scene stealing” by The Guardian in her recent performances at the Salisbury Playhouse. Williams has performed throughout the UK in some of the most well-respected British theatres - such as the Royal Exchange and Theatre Royal Dury Lane. Throughout Gorgon: A Horror Story Williams portrays a wild array of different characters.
Sound design and foley artist is Molly Isaac, an award-winning Composer and Audio Designer based in London.
Gorgon: A Horror Story is released on 15th March here: https://elflyons.bandcamp.com (you can listen to a trailer there now)
