A hand curls up from a grave-like hole in the ground; an undead figure rises up to gothic showers of light, ominous sound and dry ice. It’s not easy to do horror on stage and the Thriller-style pop video aesthetic to the opening of Tife Kusoro’s play looks as if it might quickly turn into schlock. Instead, it rallies its scary movie tropes to create its own intelligent urban gothic.
The story concerns a trio of schoolkids – Kai (Selorm Adonu), Joy (Kadiesha Belgrave) and Khaleem (Ebenezer Gyau) – and an urban legend around the ghost of a dead Black teenager they call Baitface (Dani Harris-Walters).
