There will be no spoiler alert in this review because we aren’t telling you what happens BUT it is a roller coaster of emotions watching this show.

At one point in the audience, you could hear a pin drop, then there is a ripple of laughter and then someone screamed out loud – it was me.

After all the glittering razzamatazz of recent musicals this play is certainly a welcome change of pace.

So, do ghosts really exist?

This play will immerse you and encourage you to question your thoughts / doubts about the existence of an afterlife.

Set in the main living room of a Victorian house, a fresh family with a young baby are the new owners that begin to renovate and remove traces of its history with a new IKEA kitchen, wooden floors and bifold patio doors.

However strange sounds and suspicious movements cause unease and suggest supernatural activity.

For 120 minutes, the four main cast members will keep you entertained and, at times, on the edge of your seat, in suspense as they combine the perfect blend of humour with a serious deep dive debate into the supernatural.

Be prepared to jump! An entertaining experience. 

Like The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie there is a mystery to be solved in this case with seances and ghostly going-ons and an ending to keep schtum about.

Starring television presenter Stacey Dooley and her former Strictly Come Dancing partner Kevin Clifton the real life couple have a toddler daughter called Minnie.

Kevin plays Sam, a nerdy scientist who loves quiz questions. He is married to Jenny played by Stacey a god-fearing former aid worker.

The question here is are they a mismatched couple who fell in love stargazing in Africa and are now engulfed in domesticity?

They spent the evening entertaining former university friend Lauren played by Shvorne Marks who is shacked up with working class tradesman Grant Kilburn at Ben.

“He came to tile a bathroom and never moved out,” she said.

A feral fox, room littered with baby toys, Alexis playing set dinner party music, going outside for a crafty cigarette and an apparition appearing on the patio – no I’ve said too much.

Lighting and reflection in glass is equally spooky.

We recommend you go and see it for yourselves.

2:22 A Ghost Story opened in the West End in June 2021 and has toured to phenomenal success during the past seven seasons.

There have been 12 replica productions worldwide and the show has been seen by more than one million people in 17 different countries across five continents.

2:22 - A Ghost Story plays the Bristol Hippodrome until Saturday, August 23. 

Online tickets from £15 here https://www.atgtickets.com/shows/2-22-a-ghost-story/bristol-hippodrome/,

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Carol Deacon