Silent Uproar's latest offering, The Night of the Werewolves Live, at Hull's Fruit Market, transforms the classic party game Mafia (familiar to BBC's The Traitors viewers) into a high-camp immersive theatre experience. Audience members are assigned roles as inhabitants of a remote village, where they must avoid being thrown on the pyre in a game of smut and survival.
What is The Night of the Werewolves Live?
The performance begins with Alex Mitchell welcoming the audience, setting parameters, and emphasizing consent. Rated 18+, the game encourages participants to be as bawdy as their imaginations allow. Each audience member receives a card with a character who lived in a nearby village, including roles like innkeeper, butcher, chandler, and brothel owner, and is asked to name them. One reviewer was assigned Chanandler Bong (candlestick maker).
Mitchell becomes The Professor, and the game begins. The conceit is that the audience are amateur historians who have hired The Professor to recount several bloody nights in the village 400 years ago. The audience names the village by suggesting a bodily fluid and a verb, resulting in events happening in Pissbubbleton, through which flows the river Doggy (named after a suggested sexual position).
Performance and Atmosphere
Mitchell is an engaging, charismatic narrator, encouraging the right amount of smut and silliness, channelling Richard O'Brien at his naughtiest. They even borrow a joke about the lingering of the word antici-pation. The performance features a set, lighting design, and atmospheric sound design by Eddi Pickard. Mitchell leads the villagers, a couple of witches, and four werewolves through the evening with assurance, guiding and narrating in just the right amounts.
The experience is high camp, and by the end, audiences are convinced this is immersive theatre and that it is a lot of fun. A postscript about the danger of mob rule lends the evening some heft, and attendees become surprisingly emotionally engaged. One reviewer noted being outraged that as a witch and protector of the village, they were one of the first voted to be thrown on the pyre.
Details and Availability
The Night of the Werewolves Live runs throughout 2026 at the Fruit Market in Hull. The show combines theatrical elements with audience participation, creating a unique blend of game and performance.
