2:22 A Ghost Story review – Cheryl shines in her spooky West End debut
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The play takes place over one evening with Jenny and her sceptical husband Sam (Scott Karim) having another couple, Lauren (Louise Ford) and Ben (Jake Wood), over for a dinner party. The conversation soon moves onto the alleged ghostly intruder and they all agree to stay up until 2:22am to see if anything happens. As the night progresses through various time jumps, creepy and unexplainable things begin to occur as the four debate the existence of the supernatural and bring up the ghosts of their own pasts.
2:22 A Ghost Story is gripping throughout, exploring themes of class, relationships, science and religion. It’s more chilling than it is an actual scary horror, but there’s plenty of edge-of-your-seat tension and a surprising amount of laugh-out-loud moments. The depth of Robins’ script exists alongside the play’s more popular appeal of loud-screeching jump scares and foxes howling just to keep the audience on their toes. Adding to the atmosphere at first, these soon become as tiresome as a naff ghost train.
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