Professor Goodman played by Dan Tetsell leads Ghost Stories as a lecture to begin with. He studies “ghosts” and the supernatural and takes the audience into some of the people he has spoken to about their own experiences with their unexplained encounters during his career. Whether he believes that ghosts are real is up to the audience to decide as the story unfolds.

The safety curtain remains down as Professor Goodman talks and interacts with the audience and there’s never any clue about what the staging will look like until his case study is explored in more depth.

Lighting Designer James Farncombe along with set and costume designer Joe Bausor create an eerie atmospheric setting for these encounters to be played out to the audiences. Shadows are created and fall across the stage with precision timing and you never quite know where the next encounter will come from.

Reviewing a production loaded with “spoilers” is a challenge and has plenty of limitations. If you are intrigued by things that may or may not be scientifically explained which go bump in the night then Ghost Stories is one for you. I can guarantee you will jump at least once during the show.

The audience reactions spoke volumes and the animated conversations taking place as we left were an endorsement of how much they enjoyed Ghost Stories. They talked about the “jump” sections and telling other friends to go and see it.

For more information about Ghost Stories and future productions at New Victoria Theatre Woking please click on the links below.

Four Stars.

https://www.atgtickets.com/shows/ghost-stories/

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