Sweeney Todd, Mrs Lovett, Jack the Ripper, Guy Fawkes, Henry VIII and a host of other vile characters are set to welcome guests this weekend as the new London Dungeon throws open its doors on Friday.
The £20million production at County Hall on the South Bank features 1,000 years of London history and a mix of live actors performing in 18 shows, as well as two thrill rides.
Guests embark on a journey through a dramatic London landscape going back ten centuries. They will be guided through ghastly plague-ridden streets, witness Guy Fawkes’ dramatic plot to blow up Parliament, travel back to Jack the Ripper’s bleak Whitechapel and walk beneath London’s foreboding medieval gates. Guests can also anticipate close encounters with non-human ‘talent’ including giant cockroaches and the Dungeon’s resident family of scurrying rats.
The two thrill rides are Henry’s Wrath, which sees visitors condemned by Henry VIII played by Brian Blessed to a journey along a turbulent Thames and Drop Dead – where people will plunge three stories in pitch darkness.
Online tickets for adults are from £18, children (aged 15 and under) from £13 – book at www.thedungeons.com/london
