Ghost Stories — Realscape Productions

Overview

If you're the kind of Melburnian who dedicates the entire month of October to all things spooky, you'll want to make a date with the latest acclaimed stage show that's playing throughout the Halloween month.

Ghost Stories kicked off in September but if you haven't had the chance to catch it and you're a lover of horror you better hurry because the show is wrapping up its run at Melbourne's Athenaeum Theatre with the final show on Saturday, November 5.

Ghost Stories is from the team who specialise in unsettling experiences: Melbourne-based Realscape Productions, who've been responsible for shipping container installations Seance, Flight and Coma, plus a number of 360-degree audio experiences.

Created, written and directed by Andy Nyman (Derren Brown) and Jeremy Dyson (The League of Gentlemen), and first staged in the UK back in 2010, Ghost Stories offers exactly what its name suggests. If it sounds familiar, that's because Ghost Stories was turned into a film starring The Office and The Hobbit favourite Martin Freeman a couple of years back, also featuring Nyman as the fictional Professor of Parapsychology Phillip Goodman.

Steve Rodgers as Professor Phillip Goodman - Charles Alexander

This is the type of show where the less you know going in, the better. Audience members have been known to physically jump in their seats while they're watching, too, which is part of the point.

Ghost Stories has been likened to watching a horror movie play out on stage — so if that sounds like your ideal way to spend 80 minutes, prepare to be in your element.

In its Melbourne run, Ghost Stories stars Steve Rodgers (Savage River, Kenny) as Professor Phillip Goodman, and also features Jay Laga'aia, Darcy Brown and Nick Simpson-Deeks.

Get your spook on with Ghost Stories this spooky season, with shows running every night (except Mondays). For showtimes, tickets and more information, visit the website.