Grey House

This play does something quite unusual. It takes a horror story and opens it up and pours some more questions in it.  You begin to ask who everyone is in the play is and what is going on? Where is this house?  Why do the four girls sometimes act in unison, and sometimes have such different personalities. Laurie Metcalf also appears, as, I guess you would say, the caretaker for these children although the relationship is never very clear. She was obviously fantastic and could say more in a smirk or a move than a writer could catch up with in several paragraphs. The wonderful thing about the play was that it never revealed of its secrets to you. It was like a good magician, who creates the magic, but never tells the secrets, so you never know how it was done. Levi Holloway in his debut on Broadway does a totally incredible thing in this play. He puts so many questions in it that you think you got it, and then you don’t, and then you do, and then you don’t and on and on and on through even the curtain call. It’s nice that this confusion doesn’t leave you lost in the play.  You can’t just dismiss this play because it is confusing. It actually gets you very excited about adding your own meaning as to what’s happening and not happening.  I wish that I could talk more about the play, but that would likely ruin it for any potential audience member. You certainly don’t want to be around anyone who has seen it before.  It would ruin the richness of the play. See Gray House before it closes. He will have a terrific time in the theater. It is what theater should always be about.  But if you are someone who has seen the show, I would really love it if you would leave a comment below and, perhaps, we could have a dialogue back-and-forth. I’m just bustin’ to discuss this with someone.

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