...one based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Alice Lowe is working on two dark comedy films: a reimagining of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and a comedy-horror about a  girl guide group, entitled Sprites.

Entertainment website Deadline reports that the Sightseers co-writer  and former Garth Marenghi star has singed a two-picture deal with London-Welsh production company Western Edge Pictures.

They previously collaborated on Lowe’s feature directorial debut Prevenge and last year’s comedy Timestalker.

Of her Shakespearean adaptation, Lowe told Deadline that the original play is 'genuinely funny, but also fey and fairies and blah blah blah… I don’t see why it couldn’t be revisited with how terrifying and odd everything happens in it, and how the undercurrents are actually so dark and strange.’

And she said Sprites would be a partially  autobiographical film set in the early 1980s at a time when society  was changing – ‘a transition between the trust in the monarchy, authority, in the church, in religion, in the community and into something more formless and self-centred. Sort of liminal. 

‘You only have to look at Jimmy Savile and how he slipped through the cracks to see how there was a perception or culture shift,’ she said.

Vaughan Sivell of Western Edge Pictures said Sprites represented 'the very best idiosyncrasies of Britain that comedy and horror audiences around the world have loved so much since Monty Python’.

Published: 23 Oct 2025