Award-winning theatre company ThickSkin take their theatrical horror It Walks Around The House At Night on UK tour
Spreading atmospheric horror across the country, chilling ghost story It Walks Around The House At Night, presented by the award-winning theatre company ThickSkin, embarks on a UK tour. Behind the hit shows Driftwood and How Not To Down, ThickSkin is recognised nationally for championing exceptional talent in the North West, with this latest production written by the talented Manchester-based playwright Tim Foley (Electric Rosary, Royal Exchange Theatre & Bruntwood Prize Winner; Driftwood, UK Tour; Doctor Who audio series, Big Finish Productions). Injected with dark humour throughout, It Walks Around The House At Night promises to terrify audiences.
George Naylor (Second Best, Riverside Studios; The Mousetrap, West End and UK Tour; Room 13, The Barn Theatre) plays Joe, an out-of-work actor, who in a state of desperation, takes on a job playing a ghost at an old countryside manor. Out of money and options, Joe mistakenly accepts a rich handsome stranger’s offer of an unusual yet well-paid gig during another dull shift at the bar. Expecting nothing more than a few cheap scares, Joe soon uncovers the nightmarish terrors roaming the haunted grounds at night. Joined by Oliver Baines (The House Party, Chichester Festival Theatre and Headlong; Frantic Assembly’s Othello, UK Tour; I Like The Way You Move, Theatre Peckham), as The Dancer, It Walks Around The House At Night delivers a ghost story brimming with jump scares and spine-tingling moments.
Tim Foley, writer of It Walks Around The House At Night, comments, I’m so delighted to be working with ThickSkin again after our hit with Driftwood. This time we’re making a horror show full of shocks and scares, something I’ve always wanted to do. How can a company that’s so
lovely make work that’s so terrifying? This is the best kind of theatre with the best kind of theatre-makers.
Directed by ThickSkin’s acclaimed Artistic Director Neil Bettles (How Not To Drown, UK Tour; Disney’s Bedknobs & Broomsticks, UK & Ireland Tour; The Unreturning; Frantic Assembly), the eerie atmosphere is created by Tony Award Winning sound designer Pete Malkin (Othello, National Theatre; Complicité’s The Encounter, Barbican Theatre & European Tour; Let The Right One In, Royal Exchange Theatre) and Olivier Award Winning lighting designer Joshua Pharo (Wolf Witch Giant Fairy, Royal Opera House; Noughts And Crosses, Regent’s Park Theatre; Hot Wing King, National Theatre)
Neil Bettles, director of It Walks Around The House At Night and Artistic Director of ThickSkin, shares, I’m excited to share this twisted new ghost story with our friends across the country. It’s a thrilling and complex play about power and manipulation that will send a shiver up the strongest of spines.
Based in Wigan, ThickSkin has built a reputation across the UK for high quality, inventive touring productions. They are well known locally and nationally for work that blends new writing, movement and design to present extraordinary stories in unexpected ways.
It Walks Around The House At Night
Tour Dates 2026
3rd– 7th February 2026 Chichester Festival Theatre Tickets
10th – 11th February 2026 New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich Tickets
13th February 2026 Watford Palace Theatre Tickets
18th – 19th February 2025 The Arc Stockton On Tees Tickets
20th – 21st February 2025 Theatre By The Lake Keswick Tickets
27th – 28th February 2025 Leeds Playhouse Tickets
Running Time 80 minutes (no interval)
Cast
Joe George Naylor (he/him), The Dancer Oliver Baines (he/him)
Creatives
Writer Tim Foley, Director Neil Bettles, Sound Designer Pete Malkin Lighting Designer Joshua Pharo, Set Design Neil Bettles & Tom Robbins, Design Associate (Costume) Madi Omatseone
Associate Director Anna Berentzen, Sound Associate Kieran Lucas, Dramaturg Brendan Macdonald, Casting Director Claire Bleasdale, Executive Producer Laura Mallows, Senior Producer Steph Connell, Associate Producer Abi Beaven,
Age Guidance Suitable for ages 14+
Content Warnings Loud and sudden noises, haze, flashing lights, occasional strong language, horror imagery and jump scares.
Website thickskintheatre.co.uk
Socials @thickskintheatre
ThickSkin on Demand Thickskintheatre.co.uk/on-demand
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