“Grey House” on Broadway is a ghost-meets-horror story that—despite the odd, delicious fright—never quite delivers on all its clanking, creaking, and frantic weirdness. Read TimTeeman's review:
, feels a bit like of one of those episodes, except unfortunately without the enforced economy of a half-hour time slot, with dashes of gothic ghost story, hillbilly horror, andThis puzzling, undercooked, but still arresting play, set in 1977, knows and accords to the genre conventions from whence it derives. Its biggest laugh erupts at the beginning when Max and Henry enter an isolated cabin in the woods as a snowstorm rages outside. They have crashed their car.
Max also seems to be in danger, surrounded by these strange children, and observed with just as much hostility by Raleigh , who seems to be the girls’ mother, but also seems to be not—in which case what is she? Metcalf’s curdling face, her resting face of utter horror, her occasionally caustic asides, and bug-eyed outbursts—for fans, a welcome reminder of Jackie fromInside a fridge, which magically changes contents, are, most memorable, bottles and bottles of clear and yellowish liquid, which...
And yes, Levi Holloway’s play has its shocking and gross moments—there’s one gory tableau at the end which, as any horror movie fan will know, simply must happen after all the baiting to get us there. But the play also aspires to be a psychological thriller about childhood, loss, and abuse. Unusually, but actually very helpfully, an email from the production landed after this critic had attended the play explaining whatwas really about. That is a first for this critic and—while welcome in this instance—perhaps not a good sign. If you have to send explanations of a play, it suggests some awareness within the production that the play is not being understood.
Even if you finally understand who the girls are and what they have been through, and what they need so desperately, the thing you have been internally screaming at Max and Henry all the way through— as in so many horror movies, “Get out of there somehow, you fools!”—goes not just unheeded, but stupidly, passively unheeded. Like much in, its final seconds are puzzlingly bonkers—and, rather like the great show itself, we are left suspended in the Twilight Zone.
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