Haunting Julia

Synopsis

Julia was a musical prodigy - Little Miss Mozart they called her - with the world at her feet. Until her body was found lying in a pool of blood. Twelve years have passed and Joe, her father, has never stopped asking why. Did she really take her own life? Or was someone else with her on that fateful night? Strange sounds and signs have begun to haunt the shrine Joe has built to his lost daughter. Tonight he wants an answer...and he will get it..

Our Review:

Paul Couch - 30 August 2012

I am now of the opinion that the supernatural just doesn’t work on stage. Having endured recently Terror 2010 and Ghost Stories at Southwark Playhouse and The Duke of York’s respectively; a little closer to home, Stage Fright (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds); and now Alan Ayckbourn’s Haunting Julia at the Colchester Mercury, all of which have turned out to be gigglesome rather than chilling, there’s no denying that any attempt to take this well-trodden and successful cinematic genre to the theatre invariably falls flat on its face. Indeed, the only production that seems to buck this trend is the long-running The Woman In Black, now in its 24th year.

The annoying thing about Haunting Julia is that, Ayckbourn’s interminable soliloquies notwithstanding, it has the potential to be something special. However, it fails on just about every level.

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kenny johnson - 3 December 2012:

waste a good evening... comical !!...

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