The critically-acclaimed supernatural thriller ‘2:22 – A Ghost Story’ is coming to Bristol next year, as part of an 11-month UK tour. Thirteen venues have been confirmed for 2025, including the Bristol Hippodrome between August 18-23.
Tickets for the Bristol show are now available via this link. The production’s success so far includes three years in the West End over seven seasons, with twelve replica productions worldwide – the show has been seen by more than one million people in 17 different countries.
In 2023/24 ‘2:22 – A Ghost Story’ embarked on its first extensive, hugely successful UK tour. For 2025/26 the production is back on the road revisiting some cities ‘due to popular demand’, and also visiting new places on the map. Both legs will feature two brand new casts yet to be announced.
The production began its life in summer 2021 at the Noel Coward Theatre, starring singer Lily Allen, alongside Julia Chan, Hadley Fraser and Jake Wood, and where it won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Play. It then transferred to the Gielgud Theatre for 10 weeks from December 4, 2021, with the production there starring Stephanie Beatriz, The Inbetweeners’ James Buckley, Elliot Cowan and I’m A Celeb winner, Giovanna Fletcher. It completed its run on February 12, 2022.
Known for a playbill of household names and acting talents, other cast members over the years have included Harry Potter star Tom Felton, as well as Mandip Gill, Sam Swainsbury, Beatriz Romilly, former Love Island host Laura Whitmore, Busted singer Matt Willis, Felix Scott, Tamsin Carroll, Girls Aloud‘s Cheryl, Scott Karim, Louise Ford, Sophia Bush, Ricky Champ, Clifford Samuel, Jaime Winstone, Loose Women‘s Frankie Bridge, Donna Air, Stacey Dooley, and Joe McFadden.
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For its first UK tour, the 2023 cast featured Joe Absolom, Charlene Boyd, Nathaniel Curtis and Eastenders star Louisa Lytton, and the second leg in 2024 saw Vera Chok, Jay McGuiness, George Rainsford and Fiona Wade take up the roles. In summer 2024, a run at the 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin featured the return of Laura Whitmore (this time playing Lauren) with Shona McGarty, The Wanted’s Jay McGuiness, and Colin O’Donoghue.
‘2:22’ is written by award-winning writer Danny Robins, creator of the hit BBC podcast and TV series ‘Uncanny’, and is directed by Matthew Dunster. It’s described as being: “An adrenaline-filled night where secrets emerge and ghosts may or may not appear…”
The synopsis reads: “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.”