The PENNY BLOODS RADIO THEATRE comes to LONDON for HALLOWEEN!
Yes! For one night only, we'll be at the Omnibus Theatre performing two spooky fun shows in old-time radio style:
The Mummy; or, the Elixir of Life, which offers a fresh take on the old story: boy meets girl, father meets mummy, and mummy meets…well, you get the idea!
Professor Augustus Mondragon is an avid collector of antiquities - including Egyptian mummies! The prize of his collection is a sarcophagus - alas, it is empty! But Sir Charles has a mummy to spare - in exchange for a bride....
The Green House
With inebriated ghosts and an unpunished murderer, no wonder property prices in this part of town have become so unpredictable!
Join our team of Edwardian ghost hunters in this tongue-in-cheek tale of a haunted house: What is its secret? Why has it changed hands so many times? And will Hargreaves have jam on his waistcoat again?
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About The Penny Bloods
Tales from the Penny Bloods presents a series of audio shows done in the tradition of "old time radio plays." These include adaptions of stories from prestigious Victorian gift annuals like the Keepsake and Forget-Me-Not, and from popular magazines like Charles Dickens's All the Year Round and Household Words.
Along the way, of course, our programs will also feature stories from the so-called "Penny Bloods" or "Penny Dreadfuls," (think G. W. M. Reynolds's Mysteries of London), bringing you thrilling tales in which London's high society meets the city's underworld.
Our episodes will entertain you with adventures and romances, ghosts and criminals, with a dash of comedy thrown in.
The Jewel of Seven Stars
(as heard on KCBP-FM Radio Theatre)
A thrilling new trilogy, continuing our 'Mummy' season with Stoker's Jewel of the Seven Stars, adapted by Arnold Schmidt and Julia Warren, based on Stoker's novel from 1903.
Malcolm Murray is awoken in the middle of the night by a mysterious and desperate call for help from Margaret Trelawney - and so begins a journey into the ancient past as well as the present, filled with mysticism and ancient magic....
Haunting and adventurous by turns, with treasure hunts, chases through the desert, ancient magic and through it all the haunting presence of Queen Tera, in this mystical and mystifying tale from gothic master Bram Stoker.
Wayfarers All
From mummies to another kind of wandering spirit, this time we travel from the moors of Northumbria to the Alps of Switzerland in this tale within a tale, adapted for audio by Julia Warren from short stories by Amelia B. Edwards.
Hallucination or horrifying encounter? James Murray, barrister at law, and recovering from a life-threatening accident, is convinced he experienced what he describes to the sceptical doctor who attends him.
Phantom carriages and a warning from the beyond - real or imagined? Nothing is quite as it seems in this most haunting episode yet!
Tales from the Penny Bloods is a series of
radio plays based on stories from popular
19th-century magazines. We hope you'll enjoy these tales of crime & the supernatural, romance
& adventure, with a few laughs along the way.
Teachers: you'll also find original texts,
notes, vocabulary, & lesson plans.
Upcoming episodes
The Ghost of Vauxhall Walk
Fathers and sons, devilish deals and miserly phantoms - join us for this action-packed fun ghost-fest with the Squire of Ennismore and the Tynans of Vauxhall Walk...
Based on two short stories by Charlotte Riddell, adapted for audio by Arnold Anthony Schmidt, this promises to be a rollercoaster of a tale: shipwrecks, lost treasure, a sinister stranger and a haunted house - what more could you want for the spooky season?
So get wrapped up warm and grab the popcorn...
Coming next in time for Halloween!
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About the Victorians
British Library:
Posters, newspapers, illustrations and much more, along with expert articles. (www.bl.uk/victorian-britain)
Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century:
A respected, open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal covering areas like Romantic and Victorian History, Literature, Musicology, Social History, Visual Culture, etc. (https://19.bbk.ac.uk/)
Victorian History Resources:
Elon University's fine site. (elon.libguides.com/Victorian_History/Internet_Resources)
Victorian Web:
Great all-round information about lit, history, social history, plus other links. (victorianweb.org)
About the Penny Bloods
Dittmer, Nicole C. Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism in the Victorian Gothic, 1837–1871. (https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666900804/Monstrous-Women-and-Ecofeminism-in-the-Victorian-Gothic)
This books examines the popular Gothic female “monster” figure in early-to-mid-Victorian literature in the context of medical science, ecofeminism, and social history.
Dittmer, Nicole C., ed. Penny Bloods: Gothic Tales of Dangerous Women. (https://www.waterstones.com/book/penny-bloods/nicole-c-dittmer/9780712354189)
Includes a selection of famous and obscure tales from nineteenth-century periodicals which feature "dangerous" female characters, among them witches, femme fatales, vampire mistresses and deadly criminals.
