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Tuesday, 24 October 2023

Theatre review: The Nag's Head

I guess I don't really have anything Hallowe'en-themed this year if Felix Grainger & Gabriel Fogarty-Graveson's The Nag's Head was meant to fulfil that role: This three-hander about a haunted pub proves more spoofy than spooky. Siblings Sarah (Cara Steele,) Connor (Fogarty-Graveson) and Jack (Grainger) have returned to rural Shireshire for their father's funeral, and to take over the titular failing pub he's left them. On the evening after the wake, as they first bicker then reconnect with family inside jokes, a package gets delivered for them, they assume per their father's wishes: A creepy painting of a naked demon in the woods, which they hang behind the bar. As they search for a USP that'll make customers come back, they chance upon a ghost tour of the area. Between the painting and the various unfortunate smells coming from the neglected building, they decide to relaunch the Nag's Head as the most haunted pub in Britain.