4 Star Review of 139 Copeland Road – ‘a really superb production’
https://www.londontheatre1.com/news/151683/review-of-139-copeland-road-a-really-superb-production/ I am really bad with horror stories. I don’t like scary movies and can still remember, and am frightened by the ‘nursery’ rhyme at the end of the first – and best – Nightmare on Elm Street . My other problem is one of theatrical FOMO – Fear of Missing Out. So, when asked if I fancied going to review an immersive horror show called 139 Copeland Road , I naturally decided to put myself at risk of nightmares and go along to it. 139 Copeland Road is a real house in South East London where a bad thing happened in 1974 when the occupier Mary Collins and her two children were burned to death in a very unusual house fire. Since then, the property has remained empty and picked up a certain reputation in the neighbourhood for strange phenomena occurring within it. But now, forty-two years after the original fire, a leading psychic is trying to find out if the reputation is des...