Hen Night Horror – Cast introduced For Scottish Tour – Glasgow Theatre Blog

This isn’t a hen night time… It’s a horror story…with laughs!

Hen Night Horror a hilarious, new, broad-strokes comedy musical written by Fraser Boyle & Ali Cleland offered by 5 Brick May productions, they as we speak verify a superb forged filled with Scottish “well-kent faces” together with Louise McCarthy (The Dolls / The Scotts), Frances Thorburn ( River City), Kim Shepherd (Glasgow Girls), Matthew McKenna (Rocky Horror Show) and Alan Orr ( The Dolls Abroad).

Hen Night Horror opens at Glasgow Pavilion on 20 June 2024 earlier than visiting Livingston, Arbroath, Greenock, Ayr, Inverness and Dundee.

Amanda’s dream marriage ceremony is simply days away however the proverbial has hit the fan – BIG TIME. Her bestie bridesmaids have declared battle on one another. Donna has a unclean secret, Lydia has a damaged nostril and so they’re each itching for an additional sq. go. Can a last-minute hen night time in a distant Highland lodge cowl up the cracks? Or will Donna and Lydia crack one another’s skulls open earlier than Amanda’s large day? The nasty feud has no straightforward repair nevertheless it quickly turns into the least of the women’ worries once they realise… they don’t seem to be alone… they’re undoubtedly not alone.

Hen Night Horror is offered by 5 Brick May productions. It is written by Ali Cleland (a rural Ayrshire lass) and Fraser Boyle who hails from Fife, now residing in Glasgow) Both well-known on the Scottish theatre circuit Fraser met Ali Cleland working collectively in pantomime and so they hit it off immediately. Hen Night Horror is a results of their shut, but dysfunctional friendship!

With the primary draft written in the course of the pandemic the duo hosted an invited viewers to see the present in 2022. And with suggestions which included ‘wet-your-pants-hilarious’, ‘utterly bonkers’ and ‘so funny I couldn’t breathe’, knew it was the correct time to share this extra extensively. However, in very early 2023 Fraser was identified with most cancers. Understandably this delayed Hen Night Horror once more however gave the writers an opportunity to proceed to work on the present and they’re delighted that they will now convey Hen Night Horror to the stage throughout Scotland for the very first time.

Fraser stated “It’s been true labour of love for 5 long years (and about 32 redrafts!) Now Hen Night Horror is ready to entertain audiences across Scotland! It’s a fast-moving farce with hysterical dialogue, outlandish songs and moments of genuine terror. We can’t wait to see our audience’s reactions.”

Ali provides “it’s a delight to work with Fraser. someone who belly laughs at my jokes and vice versa, and we hope that you will belly laugh along with us! In this day and age people need a laugh more than ever, and we have no doubt that’s exactly what you’ll do when you see the show. Come along and judge for yourself – we DARE you…”

Hen Night Horror has the whole lot for a superb and enjoyable night time out: an awesome story, a great deal of laughs, songs you’ll be buzzing for days and some wee scream moments thrown in for good measure!

Tickets are on sale now. Visit venue web sites for extra data and comply with on Facebook, X and Insta @HenNightHorror and TikTok @HenNightHorrorMusical

LISTINGS

Glasgow Pavilion Theatre trafalgartickets.com

Thu 20 Jun – Sat 22 Jun

Reconnect Howden Park, Livingston Howdenparkcentre.co.uk

Sat 29 Jun

Arbroath Webster Memorial Theatre angusalive.scot

Fri 05 Jul

Dundee Rep dundeerep.co.uk

Tues 09 & Wed 10 Jul

Beacon Arts Centre Beaconartscentre.co.uk

Sat 13 Jul

Ayr Gaiety Theatre Thegaiety.co.uk