Who doesn’t love staying up late? Almost everybody, nevertheless when it’s to seek out out what the mysterious footsteps are in your one-year-old daughters’ room and whose voice that belongs to strolling round, all of a sudden it’s not so interesting.
As we take our seats we have now a couple of minutes to absorb the set, a daring design from designer Anna Fleischle. An previous home with its wallpapers within the technique of being stripped, but a contemporary showroom kitchen. A pair clearly in mid-renovation. It’s pure and permits us because the viewers to narrate to an on a regular basis couple altering a home they’ve just lately moved into. The present itself is improbable, it’s expertly written by Danny Robins. It blends simply the correct quantity of hysterical horror and suspense to create a witty piece of theatre with its surprising twist saved until the very finish. We giggle together with the humour after which are rapidly caught off guard by the assorted jumps within the scenes. What’s intelligent with the writing is how the time 2:22 is portrayed. Once the time is proven on display on the stage, the nearer it will get to 2:22 you start to overthink and assume they’ll be absolute chaos on stage however the occasions that unfold are way more sinister.
The solid concerned does a outstanding job of being naturalistic and that’s the place the present excels. For giant quantities of time, it’s simply 4 individuals having drinks and speaking in regards to the paranormal but it by no means will get boring. You virtually start to really feel you’re there with them and going alongside the journey from begin to end. It flows seamlessly and all of the reactions are pure, no level does it really feel like performing apart from probably just a few arguments the place the actions and reactions really feel scripted, apart from that it’s carried out exceptionally nicely. Matt Willis could be very humerus and one to gravitate in the direction of when watching the present.Director Matthew Dunster has complimented the tremendous writing with professional course to create a improbable piece of theatre. An night with buddies, that begins seemingly innocent and really rapidly turns into way more. Ghost or no ghost, the one factor out of the bizarre right here can be you to overlook this present!
Review by George Butler
Rating: ★★★★
Seat: Stalls H13 | Price of Ticket: £65.00