Garth Marenghi's Fright Knight was a low-budgethorrorparody stage show written byRichard Ayoade andMatthew Holness, and starring Holness, Ayoade andAlice Lowe. The show, which spoofedStephen King, was performed at the2000 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it was nominated for thePerrier Award.[1][2]
The show was built around Holness'sspoofhorror writer characterGarth Marenghi, with additional parts played by Ayoade (as Marenghi's publisherDean Learner) and Lowe. The show led to Holness and Ayoade being signed byAvalon Entertainment Limited.[1]
The sequel toFright Knight,Garth Marenghi's Netherhead, won the Perrier Award in2001.
The focal characters in the subsequentChannel 4'sGarth Marenghi's Darkplace all originated in the Fright Knight stage show.
Lyn Gardner ofThe Guardian described it as "a very slick and very funny spoof".[2] Chortle.com described it as "a splendidly over-the-top spoof gorefest, getting plenty of laughs from hammy overacting, ridiculous plots and laboriously melodramatic lines".[3]
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