2:22 – A Ghost Story continues on UK tour

As its stay in Birmingham comes to an end the tour continues onto Cardiff next week…

Runaway Entertainment recently released new production images for the UK tour of Danny Robins’ edge-of-your-seat, supernatural thriller 2:22 – A Ghost Story. The brand new cast for the second leg of the tour includes Vera Chok (Hollyoaks, Cobra) as Lauren, Jay McGuiness (The Wanted, BIG! The Musical, Rip It Up) as Ben, George Rainsford (Call the Midwife, Casualty) as Sam and Fiona Wade (Emmerdale, Silent Witness) will play Jenny.

This current tour began previews at Northampton’s Royal & Derngate Theatre on 5 January 2024, and the cast will perform in venues across the UK until 8 June 2024. Written by award-winning writer Danny Robins, creator of the hit BBC podcast The Battersea Poltergeist, and directed by Matthew Dunster and Isabel Marr; 2:22 is an adrenaline-filled night where secrets emerge and ghosts may, or may not, appear…

Jenny believes her new home is haunted, but her husband Sam isn’t having any of it. They argue with their first dinner guests, old friend Lauren and new partner Ben. Can the dead really walk again? Belief and scepticism clash, but something feels strange and frightening, and that something is getting closer, so they’re going to stay up… until 2:22… and then they’ll know.

The production premiered at the Noel Coward Theatre, starring Lily Allen, Julia Chan, Hadley Fraser, and Jake Wood, where it won the WhatsOnStage award for Best Play. It then transferred to the Gielgud Theatre for 10 weeks, starring Stephanie Beatriz, James Buckley, Elliot Cowan, and Giovanna Fletcher, which completed its run on 12 February 2021. For the first season at the Criterion (May – September 2022), the cast included Tom Felton, Mandip Gill, Sam Swainsbury, and Beatriz Romilly, the second season, launching in September, starred Laura Whitmore, Matt Willis, Felix Scott, and Tamsin Carroll. 

The box office record-breaking run at the Lyric starring Cheryl, Jake Wood, Scott Karim, and Louise Ford, concluded its run on 23 April. The West End season at the Apollo Theatre starred Sophia Bush, Ricky Champ, Clifford Samuel and Jaime Winstone, and set off on its UK tour in Autumn 2023 with Joe Absolom, Charlene Boyd, Nathaniel Curtis and Louisa Lytton in the cast.

2:22 – A Ghost Story features set design by Anna Fleischle, costume design by Cindy Lin, lighting design by Lucy Carter, sound by Ian Dickinson for Autograph Sound and illusions by Chris Fisher. Casting by Matilda James.

Remaining Tour Dates…

Cardiff New Theatre 

23 – 27 Jan 7.30pm; matinees Wed & Sat 2.30pm, Fri 3pm

Wycombe Swan Theatre
30 Jan – 3 Feb 7.30pm; matinees Thur & Sat 2.30pm

Chichester Festival Theatre 

6 Feb – 10 Feb 7.30pm; matinees Wed, Thur & Sat 2.30pm

Sheffield Lyceum
13 – 17 Feb 7.45pm; matinees Wed & Thur 2pm, Sat 3pm

Wolverhampton Grand
20 – 24 Feb 7.30pm; matinees Wed & Sat 2.30pm, Fri 3.30pm

His Majesty’s Theatre Aberdeen
27 Feb – 2 March 7.30pm; matinees Thur & Sat 2pm 

Cambridge Arts Theatre

5 – 9 March 7.30pm; Wed, Thurs & Sat 2.30pm

Churchill Theatre Bromley 

12 – 16 March 7.30pm; matinees Thus 2pm & Sat 2.30pm

Richmond Theatre
26 – 30 March 7.30pm; matinees Wed, Thurs & Sat 2.30pm

Liverpool Empire

2 – 6 April 7.30pm; matinees Wed & Sat 2.30pm

Woking Theatre
9 – 13 Apr 7.30pm; matinees Wed & Sat 2.30pm

Truro, Hall for Cornwall

16 – 20 April 7.30pm; matinees Wed, Thur & Sat 2.30pm

Hall for Cornwall Truro 

16 – 20 April, 7.30pm; matinees Thur & Sat 2.30pm

Blackpool Grand
23 – 27 April 7.30pm; matinees Wed, Thur & Sat 2.30pm

York Grand Opera House
30 Apr – 4 May 7.30pm; matinees Wed, Sat 2.30pm & Fri 3.30pm

Nottingham Theatre Royal
7 – 11 May 7.30pm; matinees Wed, Thur 2pm & Sat 2.30pm

New Theatre Hull
14 – 18 May 7.30pm; matinees Thur & Sat 2.30pm

Sunderland Empire
21 – 25 May 7.30pm; matinees Wed & Sat 2.30pm

Alhambra Theatre Bradford
28 May – 1 June 7.30pm; matinees Wed 2pm & Sat 2.30pm

The Lowry 

4 June – 8 June 7.30pm; matinees Thur & Sat 2pm