Let's Summon Demons
​Written and Performed by Katy Schutte

Is it wise to ask the questions you always wanted to ask?
Let's Summon Demons is a semi-immersive folk horror play in the round. It examines our attitudes to ritual, to revenge and to the uprising of female power. Can community lead to mob mentality? What are ghosts and demons and do they come from below or from within? If you stare into the abyss, can you come back?  
Join our coven for one night to encounter comedy, folk horror and - perhaps - some demons.
Picture
Photo credits: Edward Moore

Shows 2019

13th - 17th March @ VAULT Festival
3rd, 4th, 17th & 19th May @ The Warren, Brighton Fringe
3rd October @ Roundabout, Lincoln Pop-Out Festival
17th - 18th October @ Brighton Horrorfest

Shows 2018

27th June @ Omnibus Theatre for the Engine Room
14th-16th September @ Stroud Theatre Festival
25th-26th October @ London Horror Festival
About writer/performer Katy Schutte:
Katy was in a working coven in her early 20s where she became a third degree Gardnerian/Alexandrian witch. Her Grandmother owned and ran a (haunted) Bed and Breakfast in Wales where the dog would bark at nobody on the stairwell and guests complained of hands around their neck in Room 4. Katy is a maker of comedy and folk horror. And an atheist...
More about Katy Schutte
Directed by John Henry Falle (The Storybeast) 
Projection by Jonathan Monkhouse
Sound Design by Katy Schutte (with thanks to Folk Horror Revival)
​Thanks to Edmund Fargher, Clapham Omnibus and Alex Shaw for helping with the show.

Reviews:

"A gripping, creative and immersive experience" ★★★★ Annie Power, London Pub Theatres
​(full review).
"Perfectly pitched and delivered"
​Jim Peters, Folk Horror Revival (full review).
It's hard to say exactly where Rowan's downfall occurs, because Schutte handles the spiral into delusion with such grace and subtlety that I had a hard time remembering where the laughter stopped."
Rowena Price, Stroud Theatre Festival Reviews (full review)
 666 out of 666!
I had no idea what was about to happen... some kind of ritual magic performance? Was it a dark piece of drama of spiritual possession and reincarnation? Was it a spoof? Turns out it was all three, with a dose of black comedy thrown in for good measure."
Simon Ball, The Horror Hothouse (full review)
"The bonds of the witchy sisterhood formed in that damp house in Wales prevents me from saying what happened next."
The London Theatre Marathon (full article)
Taken along for a ride into the unfamiliar, I laughed as much as I gasped as my preconceptions on what is 'ok' or 'acceptable' were tickled and pushed out of joint."
Jinni Lyons, audience member
GALLERY
Images from Engine Room scratch performance at Omnibus Theatre, courtesy of James Haskin.