It Walks Around The House At Night Review

Last weekend I went to Leeds Playhouse to see 'It Walks Around The House At Night'. It wasn't something I had initially planned to see. I was planning on going to see Uncanny but due to unforeseen circumstances I had to cancel my tickets and reuse the returned funds to see something else, so I chose to see It Walks Around The House At Night to keep with the creepy theme.

I am still going to see Uncanny later this month, in York this time, managed to grab some tickets, so I am looking forward to that.

Anyway back to last weekend. The show was pretty good. I didn't know what to expect really. Well I did have some sort of an idea in my mind of what I though the story would be about but it turned out not what I was expecting, still scary, but the story was different to what I had imagined it was going to be about. I had stayed away from reviews in case of spoilers.

The story is about a struggling actor, Joe who works as a bartender and during one of his shifts, a stranger offers him a strange but well paid gig at an old countryside manor, and joe grabs the chance to do it. The Job is to dress up as a ghost to scare the strangers nieces.

For his gig Joe is given a lodge in the manors grounds to live in for five days, and in those five days things get very scary for Joe. Each day becoming more scarier.

It was my fist time at Leeds Playhouse and I recommend visiting if you get a chance. Its a great venue.

Upon entering the theatre for the play, you were greeted by a dark gloomy stage with soft eerie music echoing around the room, it was quite a creepy feeling to be honest.

The play started with Joe introducing himself and the whole play is told from Joe's point of view.

The play is only 90 minutes long so there is no interval but there is a lot packed in those 90 minutes.

Lots of jump scares, the first one got me but from then on I was anticipating more so the rest were sort of expected but some of the audience screamed and jump at almost every one.

The ghost is a dancing character dressed in black rags who has no spoken words but is a big part of the jump scares.

It Walks Around The House At Night is rather good. It is written by Tim Foley with actors George Naylor (Joe) and Oliver Baines (Ghost) who were both great actors.

The set, the eerie music, the jump scares and the story made it a very enjoyable experience and I am glad I chose to go see it.

I would recommend anyone to go and see if it comes to a theatre near you, if are looking for a spooky night at the theatre.