Drama Soc Halloween Ghost Tour

It's been a while, but I've come bearing gifts (or at least, scary photos!)

So, the 31st of October, a big deal in the UK, it's Halloween night and get ready to dress up as your favourite comicbook character, a scary ghost or walking cucumber sandwich. I myself only underwent this ritual for the first time last year when the International Student Network organised an All Hallow's Eve for the forries in Leiden, but this time I'm being plunged in at the deep end with organising a proper Shiverpool tour through the Student Guild here in Liverpool. A 7 day rehearsal period where we set out a route through the Guild building, which is pretty big, covering the icky film cellar, deserted corridor, old library and the ancient staircase that circles all the way up into the loft. The Writing class I've been doing with the Dramas, and a very disorganises writing session left us with 7 deadly scary stories to tell during the tour. 15 of us then, on the day of truth, without any dress rehearsal, got into our last minute bought costumes, painted our faces frightningly white and bloodied up to preform, what I have to say is, one of the best pieces of scaring that went on that night. 4 tours on the hour with stories about ghosts, blood, gore and a lot of laughs in between. I myself played a corpse in the lift and the part of Snow white who suffocated in her corset on stage. I did a very convincing job dying in front of 20 tourpersons many of whom I knew personally.

It was a great success, nothing but enthusiastic responses to what we pulled off and many many people were really properly scared by what we told them. And they got a free drink at the end...what more does a student want?

Here some pictures of the night: