Time for another play, and this one describes itself as a thriller from New Zealand. It’s Zanetti Productions’ The Basement Tapes, at Former Womens Locker Room @ Summerhall, at 18:30 on Sunday 19th. Here’s the blurb: “Following her grandmother’s death, a girl faces the overwhelming task of clearing out the basement. She discovers a series of mysterious tapes with recordings made by her grandmother. As she hears these tapes for the first time, things start to unravel… Twin Peaks meets Serial in this award-winning New Zealand mystery, set and performed literally in a basement. Inspired by podcasts and Robert Lepage’s comment that radio is the most visual medium. ****1/2 (Age). ****1/2 (Sydney Morning Herald). ‘Totally engaging. A must-see production’ (Stuff.co.nz). ‘Eerie, thrilling and totally engrossing’ (TheatreView.org.nz).”

Performed by Stella Reid, this sounds very mysterious and intriguing. I’m expecting some spookiness and a few jumpy moments, and hopefully also a well-written and compelling story. It gets great reviews, after all. Check back when it’s finished at around 8.00pm to see what we thought of it. By then the next preview blog should be available to read too.

Well. That was very eerie; enjoyable in part, a few very funny moments, but also a rather slow and slightly confusing story. We decided in the end that it was probably a ghost story. But we may be wrong. Very well performed;) probably about half an hour’s material stretched out to an hour. Very slick production though.