"..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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" Angus Jackson directs a sloppy script that goes nowhere."
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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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"This production may not be for those who have come for the jump scares but, as a diehard fan of the genre, it works for me in its low-level creepiness. It will doubtless bring in a different crowd to the theatre too which can only be refreshing."
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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 problem here is that the drama utterly fails to build tension; it’s as if every other page of dialogue has gone missing. Unwin and the director Angus Jackson throw us into the middle of an already tangled narrative”
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"The audience was ready to be scared and thrilled – but the entire show is as disappointing as a wet Halloween."
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“Coarse, clumsy and fright-free”
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