Four strange girls, somewhere between 12 and 200 years old, live in an isolated cabin in the woods.
Marlow (Sophia Anne Caruso) is the alpha, bossing the others around — and also bossing the stranded outsiders, because of course there are stranded outsiders in a play that trades on the tropes of a million horror tales.
In “Grey House,” the prime trope is coy creepiness.
“Grey House,” at the Lyceum Theater, is certainly an in-your-face assault, more in the manner of John Carpenter movies than anything seen onstage since the age of melodrama.
But mostly let’s go with the freak-out fun of the four telekinetic weirdos and their den mother, Raleigh, played by Laurie Metcalf in a stringy salt-and-pepper wig that’s almost as frightening as she is.
Persons:
Marlow, Sophia Anne Caruso, coy creepiness, comfortingly, “, ”, John Carpenter, Levi Holloway, Joe Mantello, Laurie Metcalf
Organizations:
Lyceum
Locations:
—, Raleigh