Full casting and extra dates have been announced for the new Torben Betts thriller, Murder in the Dark, which opens at Churchill Theatre Bromley on 7 September.

Following Bromley, the tour will visit Guildford, York, Oxford, Salisbury, Dublin, Northampton, Dartford, High Wycombe, Birmingham, Derby, Salford, Southend, Cardiff, Cheltenham, Wirral, Richmond and Glasgow.

Directed by Philip Franks and joining the previously announced Tom Chambers as Danny will be Susie Blake (The Mirror Crack’d, UK tour) as Mrs Bateman, Rebecca Charles (The Dresser, Theatre Royal Bath) as Rebecca, Jonny Green (Count Abdulla, ITVX) as Jake, Owen Oakeshott (Witness for the Prosecution, London County Hall) as William and Laura White (Doctors, BBC) as Sarah.

New Year’s Eve. A car crash on a lonely road brings famous but troubled singer Danny Sierra and his extended family to an isolated holiday cottage in rural England. From the moment they arrive, a sequence of inexplicable events begins to occur… and then the lights go out.

This thrilling new ghost story by acclaimed writer Torben Betts will thrust you into darkness and have you on the edge of your seats until the final chilling twist.

Director Philip Franks said: “Horror films have been my guilty pleasure since I was a morbid child. Now is the time to find out whether many years’ worth of jump scares and terrible nightmares can be put to good use. We’ll also see whether my more adult theory – that horror often puts its finger on what worries us most as a society at any given time – will also hold true.“

Murder in the Dark will be designed by Simon Kenny, with lighting by Olivier Award-winner Paul Pyant, and original music and sound design by Max Pappenheim.

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