The Ritual is coming.
We've been working with a group of 14 participants/volunteers on a Halloween project 'somewhere' in Newport.
There is perhaps a little air that needs to be cleared...
When we started this project it was never intended to offend anyone, it wasn't designed to reflect or attempt to portray current events, and for the most part it's not inspired by Newport and is certainly not inspired by any illegal or harrowing activity going on in Newport.
The original concept was born from nothing other than our imaginations. The original publicity was written by myself and again I'll stress was not inspired by current events, or actual happenings in Newport.
We apologise now for any offence we have already caused with our original publicity, which has now been collected and removed from all distribution area's.
However, the show and it's themes have remained the same. It is an extreme portrayal of a fictional cult and it's workings for the purpose of entertainment. It has elements of the supernatural and comical scenes of a dark nature. It has not been made to offend, but we do accept that is the nature of horror and advise it is purely down to peoples own discretion, and we advise you only attend if you are sure you can handle the immersive environment into which you will be put.
We would love as many people to attend as possible, we are making new theatre in Newport, developing as a Newport (South Wales) based company, working with students and local residents who wanted to be involved and hopefully attracting people to the city, growing and building on Newport's Arts & Culture scene. It's a labour of love for us as a company and our only regret thus far is that we seem to have offended people with our initial output. This was a mistake on our behalf and never was our intention.
Sorry to those we've offended.
We still ask the Question: Are you brave enough?
Mucho,
Justin
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