2:22 – A Ghost Story
Cast: 3f 3m
Staging: Built set (kitchen & dining room, with french windows onto garden)
Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)
12 Aug 2021Size: 198mm x 129mm
12 Aug 2021Size: 297mm x 210mm
12 Aug 2021
2:22 – A Ghost Story
Paperback
£10.99£8.79
A4 Spiral-bound
£16.99£13.59
Ebook
£10.99£8.79
UK tour
From Fri 1 Sep 2023 to Sat 15 Jun 2024 Gielgud Theatre, West End
From Sat 25 May 2024 to Sun 4 Aug 2024
- Best New Play, WhatsOnStage Awards - 2022
Jenny and Sam – and their baby Phoebe – have recently moved into their new home. But something feels frightening and wrong. Very wrong. Over the baby monitor, at 2:22 every night, Jenny hears footsteps around her daughter's cot. Could the house be haunted?
When their friends Lauren and Ben come round for a housewarming dinner, they drink wine, relive their pasts, and argue about the existence of ghosts. They decide to stay up until 2:22, to discover the truth. Over one adrenaline-filled night – as the foxes scream outside – secrets will emerge and ghosts may appear…
Spine-chilling, funny and scary, Danny Robins' play 2:22 was premiered at the Noël Coward Theatre in London's West End in August 2021, directed by Matthew Dunster, and starring Lily Allen, Julia Chan, Hadley Fraser and Jake Wood. It went on to win Best New Play at the 2022 WhatsOnStage Awards, and was nominated for Best New Play at the Olivier Awards.
2:22 provides rich opportunities for any drama group wanting to make things go bump in the night – and their audiences scream.
This play is also available as an A4 Edition. With spiral binding, a larger print size and additional space for notes, this format is ideal for directors, stage managers, actors and others to use in rehearsal and production.
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'I'd get freaked out here, alone in the dark. Wondering what's lurking at the bottom of the bed, ready to grab your feet.'
'A contemporary haunted-house chiller that smartly plays with all the old tropes and leaves the room electric with fear'
Guardian'[A] clever, remorselessly effective supernatural thriller... I kicked myself that I didn't see the final twist coming, but it's brilliantly done. This is a superior, knowing piece of genre drama... A great, spine-tingling night out'
Evening Standard'The mounting sense of dread is relentless... Robins – the creator of hit podcast The Battersea Poltergeist – is well-versed in what makes scary stories scary, and uses that to brilliant effect here'
Independent'A cracking dinner party play, alive with wit and tension... the extremely cleverly worked supernatural angle keeps things fresh... a rare and precious example of a Good West End Ghost Play... [it] really does deliver'
Time Out'A teasingly clever and deservedly lucrative spine-tingler'
Telegraph'A gripping, clever modern ghost story that gets more intriguing as it goes along (and even after it is over)... witty as well as scary, and delivers a great punch in the final round'
Arts DeskCast: 3f 3m
Staging:Built set (kitchen & dining room, with french windows onto garden)
Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)
12 Aug 2021Size: 198mm x 129mm
12 Aug 2021Size: 297mm x 210mm
12 Aug 2021
UK tour Fri 1 Sep 2023 - Sat 15 Jun 2024 Gielgud Theatre, West End Sat 25 May 2024 - Sun 4 Aug 2024
