Yvonne Arnaud – until 30 September 2021
Reviewed by Heather Chalkley
4****
Award winning duo James Milton and Paul Morrissey deliver a new ghost story, based on the rich history of witches, piracy and war in the Channel Islands. Stories of loves revenge and nasty Nazi’s keep you gripped to your seat, willing it to its conclusion, as it reveals itself in a spine-tingling finale. The descriptive dialogue paints scenes in your mind that are not on the stage, leaving a lingering after effect. Certainly not one for the faint hearted.
James McClelland (The Speaker) brings a sense of urgency and a dark undercurrent the moment he enters the room, becoming more impassioned as the story progresses, eager to come to the 5th and final storytelling and the reason he is there. Will Barton (John Blondell) carries a dark secret not revealed until the final scene. Barton brings a vulnerability to Blondell, with his attempt to produce a vlog and underlying the desperate protestations that there is no proof that the supernatural exists.
The set is Blondell’s (Barton) office and gives you the sense of a man in his Autumn years, trying to keep up with modern times. The special effects are mostly perfectly timed, making the audience yelp and jump. They do a great job of creating and releasing tension in equal measures.
For lovers of ghost stories, this one does not disappoint. Go prepared to be thoroughly spooked