THE COMPANY

Ullaloom are a dynamic and exciting Liverpool based company with a penchant for the dark, the mysterious and the macabre!

The company were  founded in March 2001 by five participants of the unique and now sadly defunct Hope St Physical Theatre Programme. Our first show was a promenade adaptation of a Grand Guignol story by Maurice Level, called; 'Night and Silence'. Following the success of this, the company quickly realised the potential of theatrical horror, and the surprising lack of it in today's theatres.

      Ullaloom are inspired by a number of sources, including the Grand Guignol, the catharsis of Artaud's theatre of cruelty and the alienation of Brecht.

Our work is committed to exploring the shared experience of actor and audience. We believe that it is this special relationship that gives theatre its Magick, and the potential to become a truly powerful, and affecting medium.

Ullaloom has also written and performed for BBC Radio Merseyside, with 'Radio Macabre' a serial dramatisation of our earlier work. We have also had the honour of performing for Royalty, although not (unfortunately) with any Satanic, soul snatching antics!

Ullaloom are supported in kind by Hope St Ltd who provide office and rehearsal space and invaluable business advice. For more info on Hope St and the great things they do, follow this link: www.hope-street.org

We have also enjoyed continued support from the Unity Theatre Liverpool, and regularly receive arts council funding.

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HISTORY

Our debut production was a half hour promenade piece 'Night and Silence', based on a short but powerful story by Maurice Level. The subject matter was a live interment...

This was followed by 'Theatre of the Macabre', a four week, promenade, theatrical soap opera that transformed the theatrical space each week and was performed late at night. In the space of those four, half an hour episodes Ullaloom slit throats, severed heads, electrocuted a monkey man and shot the M.C. Suddenly the audience wasn't very safe...

'Theatre of the Macabre' evolved into 'Macabre' which toured the UK in 2003 and further developed the company's unique style and sensibilities for irreverent, ghoulish fun.

Macabre was followed by 'Bram Stoker's Nightmare...Dracula' an examination of Bram Stoker alongside the work he spawned.

Our Most recent production was a children's show 'The Tinderbox' though rest assured that we are most certainly not mellowing with age!