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Even the everyday horrors, the way that people disappoint each other, fail to raise a single goosebump.
At one point, though, a character deliberately breaks a lovely prop, and the audience gasps.
That object hadvalue, you could hear everyone thinking, and he shouldnt just chuck it around.
Indeed,Whisper Houseis haunted by a sense of waste.
Too little happens in its hour and a half, though there seems to be plenty of plot material.
Lighthouses are weird, liminal places, as are theaters, as are minds in grief and isolation.
Is the Japanese man a spy or is he staying near Lily for more personal reasons?
The question is asked, and then immediately answered.
Its a start-and-stop show, full of hasty storytelling that nonetheless feels very slow.
Whatever sin it was (maybe not confessing their love to each other?
That comes up once), theyre now doing their darnedest to lure Christopher to his own watery grave.
A full hour after weve met the undead, is it really necessary to interject stuff like this?
Theyre singing to an audience that is definitely not scared of them.
Its easy, though, to imagine what the creative team wanted to do here.
Imagine the songsthosepeople could sing!
Thats horrifying, certainly, but not in the way one hopes.
Whisper Houseis at 59E59 through February 6.
