RENDING THE VEIL
A Victorian séance experience with Sam Lupton
On the 7th & 8th October 2023 at 7:00 pm and 9:00 pm

Why let death get in the way of a good conversation? Join us on a dark October evening at London’s Cemetery of All Souls, Kensal Green for a journey into the unknown with a reconstruction of a Victorian séance.

The rapid scientific progress that took place in Victorian times had an eerie parallel in that society’s popular fascination with spiritualism. If science could allow communication with distant America via the newly-laid transatlantic cable, couldn’t it also provide the means for us to speak to the dead? Interest in ghosts, levitation, table-tapping, automatic writing, shadow photography and telepathy flourished; seances were held at dinner parties and clairvoyants and mediums became international celebrities.

Our medium Sam Lupton has had an interest in the paranormal and psychic phenomena from a young age, and is fascinated by mystery. He believes there is a logical explanation for almost everything, but is constantly hoping to be proved wrong. Maybe that will be one dark night this October?

Both skeptics and believers are welcome to join him, but leave your prejudices at the door and prepare to join hands and to have your mind altered.

Tickets £20 including a Victorian Punch and a 20% donation to the Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery.

Sam Lupton
Sam Lupton is an actor and magician, originally from the North East. As a magician, Sam has written and devised with other performers for the past ten years, and has performed Seance Live in a number of 'haunted' UK buildings including Lumley Castle Hotel, and Beamish Hall in County Durham. He was also the Magic Captain on the UK Tour of the Disney musical 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks'.

As an actor Sam has appeared in Wicked (West End), Avenue Q (UK Tour), Little Shop Of Horrors (UK Tour) and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (UK Tour). He has also appeared in numerous plays around the UK. He has performed in radio drama for BBC Radio 4 and on Television in a number of roles, most recently This England for Sky Atlantic. For more information visit www.seancelive.co.uk





The Venue - Bromptoon Cemetery