On stage and in sound
Every Cursed Tea project is also an experiment: a chance to test how horror is made, with performers in the room and listeners in the dark.
Work in development
The clock never stops. The tenants never leave. Only the voices change.
Alex wanted somewhere quiet to work. The flat has been very accommodating. The figures are coming along beautifully.
Developed through practice-based doctoral research into how theatre-makers create effective horror.
The clock ticks… the walls listen.
New work drawing on West Midlands legends, developed with heritage partners in site-specific and studio settings.
Storytelling podcast · Coming soon
Folklore, Legends and the Stories we Swear are True
FOAF stands for “friend of a friend”, the folklorist's name for the unnamed source behind every urban legend. It always happened to someone you almost know.
Each episode tells a story we swear is true: ghost stories, urban legends and local folklore, and where they really came from.
Audio drama series · Coming 2027
Legends Brought to Life
Ostension is the folklorist's word for acting a legend out rather than simply telling it. Six legends from the West Midlands. In each episode we trace where a legend came from and how it spread, talk to the people who keep it alive, then tell it again as an original horror audio drama.
Every drama is an experiment in the craft of fear: what happens to horror when you can only hear it?
Hagley Wood, 1943. A drama built from archival fragments, as the legend itself was built from graffiti.
Warwickshire, 1642. The armies that fought again in the sky, told through the sound of the battlefield.
Cannock Chase. Modern legends of the woods, and a figure you never quite hear clearly.
Birmingham. A locked room, a Jacobean house, and the weight of silence.
Erdington, 1817. A case that changed English law, and how a death becomes a legend.
A haunted Birmingham theatre, recorded inside the building after the audience has gone.
Episodes that involve real deaths are made with care for the people at their heart. Content notes are given at the start of each episode.