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Say what you like about hoary old ghost stories, as with the runaway success of The Woman in Black, in terms of sensationalist fun with smoke, mirrors and a bag of stage tricks they're hard to knock. This one even has the literary cred of being (loosely adapted by writer Hugh Janes from a quintet of short stories by Charles Dickens, with an extra added soupcon of incident and colour culled from Dickens's interest in all things supernatural to knit together a suitably shadowy and plummy haunted house yarn.
Young book dealer David Filde (Charlie Clements, inset) is seconded to catalogue the country house library of his uncle's late colleague, whose money-centred son has become the new Lord Gray. Other things are afoot beyond financial transactions, alas, as Filde encounters Dostoyevsky-loving poltergeists, disembodied female voices off and all manner of things that go bump in the night. This might well be unashamedly commercial hocus-pocus, yet, material like this uses exactly the same theatrical accoutrements that a host of younger and hipper theatre-makers are reclaiming as their own in a host of experience-based shows. While essentially a vehicle for veteran sitcom and musical star Paul Nicholas and ex-EastEnder Clements, the talky production sets up a debate of sorts between Nicholas's cynical rationalist and Clements's wide-eyed seeker of spooks.See the full content of this document
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