Night of the Soul

Synopsis

The sighs of death encircled me. The sorrows of Hell surrounded me. In my tribulation I cried out. 2001. A large south coast town. Invisible to all, the ghost of a young woman walks the corridors of a smart modern hotel. The night before his father's funeral a forty year old market researcher holes up in the hotel to take stock. The he sees her. David Farr's spiritual ghost story combines suspense and magic to illuminate the need in every human soul for redemption.

Our Review:

25 April 2002

David Farr's fantasy, Night of the Soul, delivers what it promises, and a pretty long night it is too, although not without some entertaining and diverting moments. Farr - who also directs this stylish and stylised production - seems to take the whole thing desperately seriously. This is a unfortunate since he has a good line in witty repartee. But as Sven-Goran Erikson would say, this is a game of two halves except the division is not entirely clear.

The plot revolves around a restless spirit, Joanna (played by Zoe Waites with a good deal more commitment than the script merits), who has apparently been earth-bound since 1350 when she disavowed God and smothered her small child rather than have him ravaged by the Black Death. She is condemned to remain so, within the confines of the Hotel Meridian, built upon the burial grounds of the plague-ridden medieval village. That is, until she comes across a man who can see her and whom she herself has a chanc...

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USER: Whatsonstage.com - 5 May 2002:

Your reviewer is far too harsh on the play. It is a delicate mixture of very considerable comedy and deeply serious drama. The central performances are faultless. Tom Mannion is utterly convincing as the son who cannot face his family with the truth of his relationship with his father. Zoe Waites shows yet again that she is a remarkable actress who is exceptionally moving as the restless spirit searching for the peace of death. ...

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