Noted for its stunt casting, the tour of Danny Robins’ supernatural thriller, 2:22 A Ghost Story has arrived at the Richmond Theatre. After the phenomenon’s success in the West End, and multiple awards, for the past casts, it seems the latest cast has a lot to live up to.
Imagine sitting down on your sofa to watch the latest tv drama mini series that everyone is talking about, except instead of your sofa, you are in a theatre seat and instead of adverts it’s a blood curdling scream at the end of every scene.
With her new glass patio doors, Jenny (Fiona Wade) constantly feels like she is being watched, and you can’t help but feel this too. Her gilet wearing and walking Wikipedia of a husband is sceptical and spends the whole of the evening teetering on the edge of being the reassuring husband, Sam (George Rainsford) and arguing against the existence of ghosts, using science and rational thinking to belittle his wife’s belief that something is haunting her house and wants to hurt their new-born. Rainsford, best-known for his role as series regular Ethan Hardy in BBC1’s Casualty and Wade, who played Priya Sharma in Emmerdale for 12 years, bring a strained, heightened, ‘soap style’ of acting, bringing unnecessary moments of tension and drama to everything they said.