Ghost Stories

The Times“The show generates genuine scary fun...” Teens, horror junkies and anyone who thinks the aim of frightening the pants off an audience is not to be sniffed at will find plenty to relish here...

Time Out“'Ghost Stories' is an immaculately crafted evening of entertainment...” If the aim of 'Ghost Stories' is to shock a worldly audience with stage trickery, then it succeeds by disarming us with humour, so that the eventual glimpses of the something in the darkness ram home on a gut level...

this is london“While many will profess themselves scared by Ghost Stories, I wasn't...” I suspect that Ghost Stories may prove a cult success but it's not truly disturbing. In fact, it's one big exercise in crafty misdirection...

The Independent“I applaud the Lyric for veering so vividly off the beaten track...” Ghost Stories, though lethally well-paced in its visceral scariness, proved to be more a fascinating think-piece – as technically dazzling as it is morally teasing – than the stuff of ongoing future nightmares...

The Stage“A hugely entertaining and a predominantly fun piece of theatre...” Each story is brought to life with some incredibly successful and atmospheric staging, excellent performances and clever trickery, including moving mannequins, ghostly door knocks and books thrown from shelves...

The Telegraph“Ingenious, creepy and horribly enjoyable...” The tension is ratcheted up with great skill and some stunning coups de theatre that leave the audience with mouths agape...

Guardian“An evening more jokey than scary...” I fully expected to be terrified – but I ended up only mildly distressed to discover that so little, so cunningly packaged, passes for hair-raising in the theatre these days...

Whatsonstage.com“Silly in its effects, and sub-Jacobean in the writing...” There are links between what happens, but they are not more satisfying than the occasional, rather arbitrary, horror moments of light and dark. But these ensure a macabre theatricality that the producers intend...

Remotegoat.co.uk“A roller coaster ride on a powerful ghost train...” The pacing of the show, and refusal to rely on sudden shocks to substitute for harder-won psychological disturbance, created as attentive an audience atmosphere as I have felt in the theatre...

Financial Times“Not yet reviewed”