LITFEST: War of the Worlds Post-Show Discussion

H.G. Wells’s classic novel, The War of the Worlds, retold by imitating the dog is supported by Lancaster Arts and Cast, Doncaster

Four performers enter the stage with cameras and construct an epic road movie before our eyes.  It’s a story we know, or think we know – an apocalyptic tale of alien invasion and the unfolding destruction of everything we hold dear. Extraterrestrial lifeforms land from the skies. Lines of Brits scrabble to flee across the channel while their cities and towns lie in smouldering ruins. It’s all of our worst nightmares. 

Using miniature environments, model worlds, camera tricks, and projection, imitating the dog mix the live and the recorded, the animate and the inanimate to create a thrilling, audacious and timely retelling of H.G. Wells’s classic novel.

Following their acclaimed adaptations of literary classics Heart of Darkness (2018), Dracula (2021), Macbeth (2023) and Frankenstein (2024), imitating the dog – ‘multimedia daredevils’ (The Times) – push their inventive storytelling to new heights.

Tickets for the performance can be purchased here. The discussion will be begin at approximately 9.30pm.

AGE GUIDANCE: 14+

Created by

Pete Brooks, Andrew Quick and Simon Wainwright

Cast

Bonnie Baddoo, Morgan Bailey, Gareth Cassidy, Amy Dunn