A haunted house farce where the ghosts might be the least chaotic thing in the room.
Farce in which the nouveau riche Mrs Frush buys Thark, a large country house, from Sir Hector Benbow but then complains that the house is haunted. An assortment of characters go to the house to investigate.
Acting
Philippa Gail's chaotic energy as Cherry steals every scene.
Writing
Ben Travers' farce structure — doors slam, identities confuse.
Director
Donald McWhinnie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Thark adapts Ben Travers' 1927 Aldwych farce, a genre of British theatre where respectable middle-class people behave like lunatics behind closed doors.
Donald McWhinnie directed this BBC adaptation after cutting his teeth on Beckett radio plays — quite the tonal whiplash.
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