" Angus Jackson directs a sloppy script that goes nowhere."
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The real story behind The Enfield Haunting is an interesting one. What was the truth behind this paranormal media story from the 1970s? But unfortunately, this production misses all of them and leaves the story confused and messy.
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"The play... [is] neither a determined psychological analysis nor a satisfactory exercise in horror. There are some thumps, blackouts, screams and a weird "presence" but no jump-out-of-your-seat shocks. Given the subject matter, the result, under Angus Jackson's direction, is oddly one-note."
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"..its current, trimmed state, Unwin’s script cries out for further elaboration on virtually every front. It’s great to pare away excess padding but this is one example where less is in fact less, and the climax – when it arrives – seems comparatively arbitrary and not grounded in what has come before."
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“...the show cannot be saved from its incoherent script and poor casting...This suggests a troubled production, that sadly is the true haunting at The Ambassadors Theatre.”
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“Director Angus Jackson hasn’t exactly covered himself in glory, but I can’t help but feel that the RSC veteran has been left fighting a desperate rear-guard action with a terrible script. He salvages a couple of scares from this mess, but the most terrifying thing about ‘The Enfield Haunting’ is that nobody stepped in to stop it before it reached the West End.”
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"In theory the play, less a whodunnit than a whoisdoingit, straddles the threshold between the rationally explicable and the unfathomable, but it never quite crosses over from the watchable into the spine-tinglingly compelling."
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"...The Enfield Haunting sacrifices clarity, leaving the audience with an intriguing but perplexing blend of confusion."
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