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BrumHour saw Ghost Stories at the invite of The Alexandra.

For Brum Radio’s Interval Theatre, actor Lucas Albion spoke about his role in Ghost Stories. Listen below:

By Dave Massey x.com/BrumHour

This production contains strong language, plus plenty of jump scares and loud sounds.

Ghost Stories at The Alexandra: Review

⭐⭐⭐⭐”Layered, thrilling performance-driven spooky stories”

Written and Directed by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Newman, Directed by Sean Holmes

Professor Goodman (Dan Tetsell) has some stories to recount to his audience. These stories are told by the rest of the cast including David Cardy, Eddie Loodmer-Elliott and Clive Mantle; plus understudies Lucas Albion and Simon Bass.

I won’t be revealing much more about the story, other than broad themes that play out; family, children, death, loss and reflection. The script paints broad strokes with these themes and then looks mainly at our fear of being alone.

The twisted angled sets are lit most of the time by torchlight and have a modern feel to them, with a suitable amount of jump scares and crazy sounds. The lights go up in the main part of the theatre a few times and the fourth wall is broken throughout by the characters many times. Which put the scare loving audience on the edge a little bit more.

Dan Tetsell is suitably unhinged as the professor and even the most random parts of the script seem to have some meaning later on. The cast of men, are strong actors with Clive Mantle becoming quite scary at times!

It is worth noting this is a ninty minute show with no break in the middle and leaving the theatre auditorium means you’ve left the performance. I found plenty of the moments in the show darkly funny and it made me jump even more.

Quite a short review for what is a layered, thrilling performance-driven spooky story. Ghost Stories is at The Alexandra until 24th May. Book tickets here: atgtickets.com/shows/ghost-stories/the-alexandra-theatre-birmingham.