The Highgate Vampire
A riotous new dark comedy. London, 1970. A Vampire lurks in Highgate Cemetery... More of this is true than we would like.
London, 1970. Something horrifying stalks the streets of London. A creature with blazing red eyes, sucking the life out of all who cross it’s path, leaving only terror in it’s wake.
A demon-hunting Priest and his sworn enemy, a man who’s a tobacconist by day and a vanquisher of the undead by night, both set out to destroy the creature forever. An uneasy alliance. London’s own vampire. Both heading to the dark heart of Highgate.
And now, if you’re sitting comfortably, they will tell you how it happened…. “This tale is undoubtedly true. And WE have come to tell it….”
Based on real events, the critically acclaimed Bag of Beard Theatre bring you the unheard and undead tale of ‘The Highgate Vampire’. A new dark comedy that asks you to imagine, among other things, what if The Woman in Black had been performed by The Mighty Boosh?
A horrifying new play, an ink-dark comedy and very possibly the most shocking true story you haven’t heard. Yet.
It is time for the lecture to begin. Always Beware the Highgate Vampire….
James trained at Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts and works as a performer, musician, playwright and theatre maker. He is an Associate Director of Bag of Beard and a key member of the ensemble for BoxLess Theatre.
His work as a performer and musician includes Bath (The Bread & Roses Theatre); Loop (Theatre Royal Stratford East, tour & Edinburgh Fringe); Buried (Tristan Bates Theatre & Old Red Lion Theatre – Off West End Award Finalist for Best Performance); Beauty & the Beast (Square Chapel Arts Centre); Private Peaceful (Barn Theatre, Bristol Old Vic and tour); and Ballooniana! (New Wimbledon Theatre). As both writer & performer – Renaissance Men (Old Red Lion Theatre and tour) & The Highgate Vampire. He lives in Hackney with his girlfriend and his cat, Fred.
,Alexander Knott is an Off West End Award winning theatre maker who works as a writer, director and creative producer. He has written and directed productions at the Bristol Old Vic, The Barn Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East, 53Two Manchester, the Underbelly Edinburgh, the Old Red Lion Theatre (where he was Artistic Director) and numerous venues across London. He has taught Acting and Writing at Italia Conti, Central Film School and LAMDA, and was most recently Producer of The Bread and Roses Theatre and the founding Producer of the Lambeth Fringe Festival.
As a writer, his plays include: Bath (Bag of Beard, The Bread & Roses Theatre); Loop (BoxLess, Theatre Royal Stratford East, national tour & Edinburgh Fringe); Blue Blue (WoLab, King’s Head Theatre); Brenda from UKIP (Proforca, The Space / The Lion & Unicorn Theatre); Renaissance Men (Joint Writer / Dramaturg, Old Red Lion Theatre / Square Chapel Arts Centre & northern tour); Hedgehog (BoxLess, The Lion & Unicorn Theatre); At Last (Joint Writer, Proforca, The Lion & Unicorn Theatre and tour); Nothing Between Friends (Joint Writer, West Avenue, Waterloo East Theatre); Yesterday’s Dreams (Katzpace); December – A New Play for Christmas (Old Red Lion Theatre); Cratchit (Park Theatre); Ballooniana! (New Wimbledon Theatre); The Messiah Complex (VAULT Festival) which was nominated for an Origins Award for Outstanding New Theatre; The Tales of the Giants (Wilton’s Music Hall Studio) and The Highgate Vampire (VAULT). His writing is represented internationally by Nordiska Collective.
- ISBN-13
- 9781915533432
- Publisher
- Playdead Press
- Imprint
- Playdead Press
- Publication date
- 16 December 2025
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 94
- Dimensions
- 197 x 132 mm
- Language
- English