“A plot worthy of Inside No. 9“ – could there be a greater compliment to pay We Know Now Snowmen Exist? Take a look at what reviewers said about the all-female claustrophobic thriller, then rush to book tickets as there are only a couple of days left to see it!
The spine-tingling thriller, which is written by Michael Spencer and runs until 23 March at The Space, is inspired by the unsolved mystery of the Dyatlov Pass Incident of 1959. There, nine ski-hikers died in the Ural Mountains in still-unexplained circumstances. Six of the party perished from hypothermia, having fled their tent in differing states of undress. Three received injuries deemed unlikely to have been caused by a human. Their bodies were found over the space of four months; some up trees, some missing parts of their face…
Set in the modern day, a group of women set out on a charity hike… and never return. What really awaits the girls outside the relative safety of their tent – and more importantly, do they really know who’s inside it? Why was the tent cut open? Why were the bodies partially dressed in each other’s’ clothing? And what was meant by the group’s chilling final journal entry; ‘We know now that snowmen exist’.
We Know Now Snowmen Exist was a smash hit at the Carlisle Fringe Festival in 2018, winning the Creative Spark Commission for New Theatre in a sold out five-star run. It is now a finalist for the prestigious Cumbria Culture Awards Live Production of the Year.
nice little chiller from @HighlySuspectUK, We Know Now Snowmen Exist certainly gave lot to ponder and way too much info on girls weeing habits! well worth a trip to @SpaceArtsCentre to witness their take on what happened to five girls who never came home #SnowmenExist
— Rob Warren (@Robwarren348) March 19, 2019
The all-female cast of We Know Now Snowmen Exist includes Rowan Kikke (Lisa), Rebekah Holly Neilson (Rachael), Vanessa Sedgwick (Chloe), Chloe Sturrock (Hayley), and Naomi Webster (Zoe). In keeping with the Cumbrian tradition of Highly Suspect, all the actors are either Cumbrian-born or trained in England’s northernmost county.
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