The role of Lauren is almost the audience’s representative on stage, trying to decide what is real and what isn’t, Beatriz plays wonderfully against James Buckley. As the night goes on and the countdown inexorably continues, we are drawn into heated discussions and even a drinking game, challenging each other to prove or debunk the existence of ghosts. A Ghost Story review, Noël Coward Theatre: Lily Allen makes an eerily good stage debut in tense horror". It’s going to be so fun to share 2:22, an absolute rollercoaster ride of a show, with audiences across the UK. The sound design includes a sassy Alexa and a baby monitor although a slight criticism of the sound design would be the loud ‘red herring’ fox noises; used as a shock factor the audio is very intrusive and seemingly unrealistic.

Belief and scepticism clash, but something feels strange and frightening, and that something is getting closer.balances the elements of character and atmosphere within a solidly constructed story that builds to a satisfying conclusion.

There is welcome humour throughout the script, which serves to break the tension and give light relief, but it never feels out of place and helps to give a realistic rounding to the characters.Reigning Queen of the Castle Giovanna Fletcher is convincing as a tired and spooked out new mother but sadly became so shrill in places that we could not pick up her vital dialogue which made the plot hard to follow in some places. It takes a while to get going and there's an awful lot of red herrings strung along the way, BUT that climax is a shocker that I did not see coming. Danny Robins is a man of average height with black hair, a red coat and wolfish expression, he is exactly the type of person who would tell a story like this.

The character development is much better than it even needs to be, and I am sure it works like gangbusters on stage. provides rich opportunities for any drama group wanting to make things go bump in the night – and their audiences scream. I’d be curious to see it live in that it includes mounting tension about the supposed ghosts with sound cue jump scares but it also includes an interesting debate among the characters about belief versus science. On Friday 21 July it was announced that Sophia Bush had withdrawn from the production due to health reasons and that Frankie Bridge will be taking over the role of Lauren from August.

If this anecdote sends a shiver down your spine or at least makes you smile at the coincidence, you’ll have a grand time at his show, which places a good old-fashioned ghost story at the center of a relationship drama. and you can really see how this influenced 2:22 (set in a once poor now gentrified area of London, bringing together sceptics and believers. For several nights, at exactly 2:22 am, Jenny hears the sound of someone moving around the house and a man's voice crying, via the baby monitor in her daughter's bedroom, and becomes convinced the house is haunted. It's never clear if the characters themselves can see the clock, making it an even more chilling presence, ticking away to a moment of truth.

But still a good read, that should have taken me a day but due to uni and working has taken me like a week. The first half definitely showed signs of a new show opening with cues slightly missed and relationships not fully formed but the cast and writing settled in during act 2. The ending is clever, but I rolled my eyes — partly in disbelief, partly in chronological confusion. A third West End engagement at the Criterion Theatre, from 10 May to 4 September 2022, was announced without a casting confirmation.Although scarier to see than to read, the script is set out so that it can be read like a story, with no stage directions giving away any of the secrets until the end. She concluded, "Much more than simply a successful first foray into theatre for one British singer, 2:22 stands on its own merits. Nathaniel: I do not believe in ghosts, and frankly, if I did, I wouldn’t be able to do the show because I’d freak myself out too much.