WAR OF THE WORLDS
H.G. WELLS’ CLASSIC NOVEL
WED 29 APR – SAT 2 MAY

The award-winning imitating the dog, one of the UK’s most innovative theatre companies,
push their inventive storytelling to new heights with their bold retelling of the iconic science
fiction story War of the Worlds.
★★★★ ‘Hugely impressive’
Fairy Powered Productions
★★★★ ‘Gripping’
West End Best Friend
★★★★ ‘An absolute feast for its lucky audience’
Northern Arts Review
‘Visually astonishing’
The Observer
Four performers enter the stage and construct an epic road movie before our eyes. It’s a
story we know, or think we know – an apocalyptic tale of alien invasion and the unfolding
destruction of everything we hold dear. Extraterrestrial lifeforms land from the skies. Lines
of Brits scrabble to flee across the channel while their cities and towns lie in smouldering
ruins. It’s all of our worst nightmares.

Using miniature environments, model worlds, camera tricks and projection, imitating the
dog mix the live and the recorded, the animate and the inanimate to create a thrilling,
audacious and timely retelling of H. G. Wells’s classic novel.

Imitating The Dog is a National Portfolio Organisation which have been making ground
breaking work for theatres and other spaces for 25 years. Their work, which fuses live
performance with digital technology, has been seen by hundreds of thousands of people in
venues, outdoor festivals, and events across the world.

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H.G. Wells, written
between 1895-1897. The story is centred on an attempted alien invasion of Earth from the
planet Mars, from beings with much greater intelligence and more advanced weapons than
humans. The War of the Worlds is one of the most commented-on works in science fiction.