UK tour of Jack Thorne's vampire play cancelled

The UK circuit of Let the Right One In, written by the co-creator of Adolescence, has been cancelled owed to "unforeseen circumstances".

The accumulation was owed to statesman its circuit astatine Northampton's Royal and Derngate successful October and decorativeness successful Liverpool successful April 2026.

It is based connected the best-selling Swedish caller and award-winning movie by John Ajvide Lindqvist.

A spokesperson for the show's producers said: "Due to unforeseen circumstances, the UK circuit of Let the Right One In is nary longer capable to proceed arsenic planned."

They said summons holders would beryllium contacted straight by their constituent of acquisition with refund information.

The circuit was to travel a sold-out tally astatine Manchester's Royal Exchange.

After Northampton, it was owed to spell to Bromley, Bristol, Salford, Fareham, Cardiff, Southend, Eastbourne, Glasgow and Birmingham.

The play tells a communicative of vampires, love, loneliness and survival, and was directed by Bryony Shanahan.

It comes aft the Netflix bid Adolescence, co-written by Thorne and histrion Stephen Graham, which shows the aftermath of the stabbing of a teenage girl, with a 13-year-old lad from her schoolhouse arrested for her murder.

It was released soon aft Toxic Town, different deed the 46-year-old wrote for the streamer, which was based connected the existent communicative of the Corby toxic discarded case.