Your Next Stop Is Neverwhere – Theatre Review

Originally published on hullfire.com.

Catch the last night of the play on Thursday 8th in Asylum at 7:30pm. Tickets are £5 on the door and £4 in advance.

Hull University Drama Society’s production of Neverwhere takes place on the stage in Asylum but sitting in the audience you will be transported to the weird subterranean world of London Below. The play which is the second production to be put on by the Drama society this semester, along with Dracula, is a weird and wonderful adventure based on a TV show by Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry. It was adapted for stage by Robert Kauzlaric.

In it the hapless everyman, Richard Mayhew, is transported to another world below the streets of London after performing an act of kindness for a wayward stranger. Door, the mysterious teleporting stranger, is his first glimpse of London Below, ‘a city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet…a city of those who have fallen through the cracks.’