Chateau Ghoul 2020 - 2021
Chateau Ghoul is East Yorkshire’s most haunted country house hotel
“Killingly funny!”
The Goole and Howden Advertiser
"Who could've predicted this amount of laughs?!"
The Clairvoyant Society Newsletter
"This performance will haunt you for years"
The Spirit and Destiny Magazine
SYNOPSIS:
An interactive Zoom show which later toured in person.
Our hosts Brian and Brenda Binns (or B&B as they are known) have decided to go all Glastonbury and throw open the grounds for a summer festival. Don your festival wristband and join in the fun! Activities include The Tour de Yorkshire Lycra festival, Funghi Foraging, The Tantric Tepee, live bands on the Rhombus stage. But be warned, the guests keep dying....
This was our COVID show. We had just received news of a successful funding bid when lockdown happened and we couldn’t do the live show we had planned. Ever resourceful, we turned Sue’s garage into a green screen studio and filmed the show
in there. The crew were socially distanced in individual tents and marquees in the garden. We then performed the show as a live, interactive Zoom show. The audience at home made origami windmills and joined in. It was a bit of joy in dark times. We then tried to launch an autumn tour of the live show, which was postponed by a further lockdown and finally the show went on the road in February 2022. Our final performance together was on March 12th 2022 at the Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond.
Trailer for interactive Zoom show Chateau Ghoul Most Haunted Event
Here’s some reaction from the audience
“Absolutely loved the show! It was marvellous to be a part of it. Thank you, thank you for making it possible and making us feel a part of something again.”
Fiona Daniel
“It was wonderful although our efforts to make a windmill were very unimpressive and we only scored 2 for the films!! However we enjoyed it enormously and look forward so much to when we can actually see you in the flesh here in Peterborough again.”
Anne Birchenough
“Magic Maggie and Sue ! Congratulations, that was a scream ! And brilliantly put together ! Well done the whole team. Loved the writing, the characters, the visuals, the groovy music and the sheer hilarious inventiveness of it all. And you were both tremendous! Thank you xxxx.”
Matthew Zajac
“You managed to maintain everything special about Lip Service using the Zoom platform - and add to it. We’ve both been delivering training/yoga for months now and know how difficult it is to make the technology work effortlessly for the material and you managed it; it was very slick.”
Andrew Dodge and Karin Garzke