I deliberately didn’t read any reviews of Ghost Stories beforehand so as not to create any expectations before seeing it. Nevertheless, I couldn’t prevent myself from having expectations of. Its very title promised so much, not to mention all the posters and adverts I’d seen for it all over the place, claiming it was an amazing and astonishing play.

To our disappointment the show didn’t quite deliver.

I have some difficulty in writing up tonight’s experience as I don’t really want to give anything away. Suffice to say there are a few scares but mostly a lot of laughs – whether or not it was intentionally poking our funny bone was another matter. I think my greatest issue with the show was that I couldn’t see where it was going – where the title implied one thing, the show headed in a different direction altogether.

The show had an extremely slow start and the first third easily could have been developed differently. Strangely throughout the show we lost a lot of people to toilet visits. Come on people – you can’t hold it for 90 minutes!

What I did like was a the ending – it kind of reminded me of Inception in some ways …