Two Amazingly SCARY Plays

Ghost Stories - Duke of York Theatre - London

What a fantastic Play. Immediately as you walk into the Theatre it has been decorated with plastic sheets yellow and black tape and industrial lights with lots of eerie base noise and dripping water in the background. Clearly we were meant to be in some deserted mill or building site. 

The play was based on three ghost stories narrated by a professor of parapsychology. Some of the photos he showed on a slide show were creepy as was the first story about a father hearing his daughter’s voice as she followed him around a deserted building he was caretaker of. The Second one I was expecting what happened. The usual car in woodland then breaks down at night. The third story wasn’t particularly scary, but it was disturbing, the viewer makes of it what they will. My take was that the baby was Spawn of Satan and could manipulate those around him. The twist at the end though was truly amazing and one I hadn’t suspected at all. 

Spoiler alert: All three stories were actually connected as the professor was the one in the coma dreaming these horrors and specific sentences used were in fact the staff talking around him. It brings to the forefront the question of what is reality exactly and whose reality is real and who’s is fake. Or my favourite, how do you know that this is reality?

Woman In Black- The Lowery - Salford

I know now that this play has been made into a film and I will say no more about that, but going to the theatre and seeing something genuinely frightening, live with a group of other people prepared to be scared out of their wits is truly something special and this play certainly delivered the unexpected screams that made everyone jump!

The basic gist of the story was a man is employed by his solicitor boss to go and close a deal on an old foreboding house in the country. He gets there at night, naturally, when it's all creepy and mysterious and the house appears empty except for the odd moan, groan and creaking door. 

As our reluctant story teller investigates the house further it becomes apparent that the previous occupant was killed in a tragic horse and carriage accident and hasn't accepted their death or moved on blah blah blah.

But for me it wasn't the actual story or plot that particularly blew my socks off in a ghostly paranormal or unexplained breeze but the sudden rocking chair, the lights going out, the thunderstorm effects and as the lightening flashed around the stage and audience the ghostly apparition of the ghost women dressed in a Victorian black dress appearing intermittently that gave me the serious heeby jeebies... In fact I have a shiver run down my spine and arms just writing about it!!! Yurgh!

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