West Midlands-based Liminal Stage Productions is hoping to chill audiences at Halloween with its digital production GREY MAN: A Stage and Screen Experiment.
The LGBTQ+ disabled female-led company has taken a one-woman stage play written by Lulu Raczka and turned it into a “hybrid stage and screen production” which “intercuts two parallel versions of the same dark horror story, leaving us to decide which character is which and which story is the truth”.
GREY MAN: A Stage and Screen Experiment tells the story of two sisters, the older of whom exaggerates her mental illness through a web of stories about a grey man who stalks the streets.
Liminal Stage Productions comprises queer disabled artistic director Robyn Winfield-Smith and a team of freelance digital associates including producers Miranda Mackay and Bea Sutcliffe, and established transmedia technical artists, immersive game developers and film-makers Myra Appannah and Simon Wilkinson.
Winfield-Smith said, “one of the thrills of Lulu’s script is that it holds the door open to so many interpretations, and is so skilful in its positioning of greyness as a metaphor for mental illness and socio-economic deprivation. It’s an ingenious and bizarrely prescient piece and is the perfect urban horror story for Halloween.”
The cast features Kate O’Flynn and Kristin Hutchinson. GREY MAN: A Stage and Screen Experiment which is 33 minutes long can be viewed on YouTube from Monday 31 October until Saturday 17 December.