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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Nick Clark

The Enfield Haunting, Ambassadors Theatre review: even Catherine Tate can't reanimate this limp ghost story

The West End has long had a fascination with things that go bump in the night. From 33 years of The Woman in Black to the success of 2:22 A Ghost Story and now Stranger Things: The First Shadow, audiences clearly crave a good scare on a night out.

The latest show hoping to have 'em screaming in the aisles is The Enfield Haunting, starring Catherine Tate and David Threlfall – the first big opening in Theatreland of 2024. But sadly this limp effort will barely raise more than a sigh.

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