Festival Theatre, Edinburgh Three stars Ghosts and a whole lot more are in the house in Ali Milles’ overloaded thriller, resurrected by the Original Theatre company following a truncated run in 2020 cut short by lockdown. It begins simply enough, as the spirited Laura arrives at her family home in the hills with her older lover Suzanne in tow. Before the pair can settle in, unreconstructed family ghillie David arrives to check out the cottage hasn’t been occupied by interlopers. Other former residents soon make their presence felt, however, as what started out as a retreat for Laura and Suzanne becomes an almighty confrontation. As time slips back and forth between Liza Goddard’s Enid all the way up to Laura’s own mother, history repeats itself by way of several generations of dangerous liaisons and secret affairs that make up a century spanning soap opera. Throw in some free thinking talk of witches and selkies and as the rocking chair springs into unoc...
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