SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER.
In a play (seemingly) aiming to remove obvious horror tropes and find striking new imagery, or at least new iterations of the old school kind, the reveal seemed too on the nose and obvious, from my seat in the front mezz. So many movies resort to Wiccan or Wiccan-adjacent pagan shibboleths, it felt familiar, and not just to me: the moment that rug was pulled back, the audience began to snicker, some guffaw. Is that the intended result? When we recognize a hoary cliche? To me, Grey House is at its best when such literalized conventions are sidestepped. But maybe the whole point was to give us a bigger "clue." I just felt: okay; been here, seen this. |
